Netscape 7: Nice, but I'll stay with IE
ZDNet | at | by Mike
After playing with the new preview version of Netscape 7, released yesterday, I found myself asking, "Why?" More specifically, why is AOL Time Warner releasing this thing? Don't they know the browser wars are over and that Internet Explorer won? It reminds me of the knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, arms and legs long since hacked away, defiantly shouting, "Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!"
A brand-new user, a Microsoft-hater, or someone who lives on AOL mail and messaging would be very well served by Netscape 7. But for the rest of us who are reasonably happy with Microsoft, none of these improvements is compelling enough to make me want to switch. At this point, Netscape needs to offer something earth-shattering if it's going to make up ground on IE. Netscape 7 ain't it.