It appears that we are just about a week absent from the changing of the guard on the old Browser Wars. whether you look on the netscape.aol.com site, you’ll see that the old Netscape Browser support will officially end on March 1, 2008. Even the Netscape Blog advises a switch.

Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) has been making many changes at AOL and its properties by the final two years. In fact, Netscape, AOL, Advertising.com, AIM, and just about everything else has changed. Unfortunately, some change additionally means the death of positive parts, and that part appears to be Netscape.

If you will remember back to the 1990’s, that was its own public company with the “NSCP” ticker that had roughly a 90% market share. humans even paid for AOL-acquired Netscape when its market share was steadily declining, and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) ended up paying out roughly $750 million in an antitrust settlement by search and bundling. Netscape is still loaded up on many PC’s both on its own and via one of those old

AOL access dial-up bundle offerings that used to be included with PC’s. Now nearly no one uses it. I used to use it exclusively, but those days are lengthy gone. What a difference a decade makes.

Even Linux seller Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) paid money at one point for some of Netscape’s shield software.

Frankly, Mozilla’s Firefox has taken the place of Netscape in today’s world and it is now nearly an equally-yoked rival to Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Net Explorer that has been downloaded onto millions of computers. The commerce of owning a Web Browser is really nothing more than a project. certain, there are others like Opera, but most web sites only want to support Explorer and Firefox now. Such is life in a world where free is fitting more and more of an expectation.

Even whether it is merely for old times sake, “Farewell, old forgotten friend.”

Original post by Jon Ogg

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