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Story: Take the shame: Microsofties ADMIT to playing Internet Explorer name-change gameTotal Replies: 3
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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?

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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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