The End of Netscape
I just read an announcement that our help desk, which provides technical support for all of the university, is ending support for all Netscape web browsers and e-mail clients on February 1st, the same date that Netscape itself is ending support for those products.
The announcement surprised me a bit: usually we're not that quick to cut off support for a product. But it makes sense: with spyware and other malware being such a big user support problem, having folks using a browser that's no longer being updated or patched to deal with such malicious programs would only add to the pain.
For me, that means less browser to code for when building internal apps (though pages that rendered correctly in FireFox and IE almost always rendered properly in Netscape as well).
Goodbye Netscape!
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