AOL prepares its own browser | CNET News.com
AOL is planning to release its own stand-alone Web browser based on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer technology, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans.
AOL Browser, as it’s called, will be available as a separate download for Web users. The software will be based on a stripped-down version of IE and will be branded with AOL’s logos, the sources said. Up until now, the Time Warner division has only offered a browser that’s tied to its popular Internet service. That browser also uses IE technology.
Microsoft last year granted AOL a seven-year royalty-free license to use IE technology in its products. The license was one of many concessions that Microsoft offered AOL as part of a $750 million settlement in an antitrust lawsuit filed by Netscape in January 2002.
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kb October 14th, 2004 - 2:24 pm
why? Why would anyone voluntarily choose an AOL browser? Why would they choose to take a rebranded MSIE? Why would AOL not just use the Netscape code that knocks IE upside down and around the bend for quality?
This world is getting stranger every day…
-kb
Nate Koechley October 14th, 2004 - 6:11 pm
Couldn’t agree with you more.