Allow me to propose...
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| BernardSwiss Aug 18, 2014 3:46 PM EDT |
that: (1) in light of Microsoft's {ahem} ground-breaking history in the arena of web-browser development, and (2) Microsoft's more recent history in matters of more current interest, that the new name for Microsoft's Internet Explorer should be... Spyglass !!! . Yep. Works for me... |
| TxtEdMacs Aug 18, 2014 4:17 PM EDT |
[very serious] Why has it been forgotten that MS strong armed away the name from a small outfit, that it then ran into ground due to legal costs bankrupting it only to buy the rights fnally for a retaliative pittance of approximately I mil. USD from the bankruptcy administrators? Once before I searched without success for the source. I checked for the story on multiple sites. Sadly, if it was on slashdot, it's lost forever. Does no one else remember this, but I? [/serious] |
| BernardSwiss Aug 18, 2014 4:23 PM EDT |
I believe the makers of Spyglass are still in existence. They won their suite against Microsoft (or settled?) and came away with a few million dollars -- but don't even list their browser in their achievements or show any reference to it on their bragging wall. |
| jdixon Aug 18, 2014 5:28 PM EDT |
I believe Spyglass was the second commercial spin off of the original Mosaic code, after the folks who forked Netscape from it left to form Netscape. |
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