AOL Browser (not just rumors like the Google one)
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.
Click here for screen shots of the AOL browser
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