Christian Mattar writes: > Netscape was a bargaining chip, so that the deal "using IE in AOL" > against "Having an AOL-Icon on the Windows desktop" stayed alive. > Nothing more, nothing less...
Sorry, but I don't go for conspiracy theories. The fact is, at the time, many companies were choosing MSIE for the same reasons that AOL did. MSIE provided a lot more options for companies that wanted to heavily customize the browser for their customers or employees, and it also provided administrative tools that let large organizations control the configuration of the browser in large deployments. Note that if Firefox is to compete with MSIE in these same situations, it's going to have to offer the same possibilities that MSIE does. I don't know how popular custom versions of browsers are today (the trend is towards commodity software), but the need for administrative controls in large deployments is just as great as it has ever been, if not greater. -- Anthony _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list Mozilla-security@mozilla.org http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security
