From the, “Boy isn’t that stupid” department, listener Ira pointed out to me that the new version of Netscape, Netscape 8, is now available for download. There is currently no Mac OS X version, but Netscape kindly offers that Mac users “Download the Windows Xp version”. Now, while I am sure they mean this as an option for those Mac users who also own a Windows PC, the text is not that specific. I wonder how many new or novice Mac users will download the Xp version and spend a few minutes in frustration as they attempt to run a .EXE. Either that or Netscape has some inside knowledge about then new Intel based Macs ability to run Windows apps? Maybe those rumors of Intel Mac OS X multi-OS virtualisation technology are really about to come true? I doubt that is what they meant. Darn.
You should post this on http://www.thisisbroken.com
lol
Woah that is stupid.
I DON’T WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO RUN WINDOWS APPLICATIONS!!!!! AUGH!
Netscape is really bad. I don’t know why you’d want it anyway because Firefox is the same engine. UI on Windows is atrocious. They take the code the Mozilla Foundation slaves over and then they make it worse.
That really made me laugh :) I wouldn’t use netscape though :(
Looks like someone made a mistake.
But it seems to be corrected now, it doesn’t say that anymore.
By the way, who wants Netscape? That browser is so old…
I had a note about this too awhile back… but it was more of a blast at yahoo. check it out:
http://www.think-mac.net/blog/archives/000198.html