Netscape英语介绍

Netscape英语介绍
Netscape英语介绍

Netscape英语介绍
Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is an American computer services company, best known for its web browser. The browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war. By the end of 2006, the usage share of Netscape browsers had fallen, from over 90% in the mid 1990s, to less than 1%.
Netscape stock traded between 1995 and 2003, subsequently as a subsidiary of AOL LLC. However, it became a holding company following Netscape's purchase by AOL in 1998. The Netscape brand is still extensively used by AOL. And some services currently offered under the Netscape brand, other than the web browser, include a discount Internet service provider and a popular social news website. As of December 2007, AOL announced it would no longer be updating the Netscape browser. Tom Drapeau, director of AOL's Netscape Brand, announced that the company would stop supporting Netscape software products as of March 1, 2008. The decision met mixed reactions from communities, with many arguing that the termination of product support is significantly belated. Internet security site Security Watch stated that a trend of infrequent security updates for AOL's Netscape cause the browser to become a "security liability", specifically the 2005-2007 versions, Netscape Browser 8. Asa Dotzler, one of Firefox's original programmers, greeted the news with "good riddance" in his blog post, but praised the various members of the Netscape team over the years for enabling the creation of Mozilla in 1998. Others protested and petitioned AOL, including online petitions and propaganda, to continue providing vital security fixes to unknowing or loyal users of its software, as well as protection of a well-known brand.

美国Netscape公司，以开发Internet浏览器闻名
Netscape built the first commercial web browser, providing a major driver of the development of the web and related online innovation that characterized the late 1990...

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美国Netscape公司，以开发Internet浏览器闻名
Netscape built the first commercial web browser, providing a major driver of the development of the web and related online innovation that characterized the late 1990's.
In May, 1994, Jim Clark, founder of the computer company Silicon Graphics Inc., Marc Andreessen, and others from the Mosaic development team formed a company to develop a commercial web browser. The University of Illinois almost immediately sued. The company announced settlement of the suit at the Comdex conference in the fall of 1994, and, as part of the settlement, agreed to change its name from "Mosaic Communications" to "Netscape".

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