Number 205 - June 2000

Old Browsers Never Die...
Submitted by Eb Foerster, Nov 1999 North Texas PC NEWS
The following was taken from the September 1999 issue of Government Computer New/State & Local:     Access denied. Ah, the joys of market competition. Now that the Web browser wars of a few years ago have balanced out to an uneasy detente between Microsoft Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp., GCN Lab reviewers are rediscovering the advantages of having multiple browsers and versions installed.     While setting up an old PC for year 2000 upgrades, I saw that it needed a newer version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. But when I tried to use the existing	browser to go to the Microsoft Web site to download, I ran into a technological roadblock. Error Messages kept saying that access was denied.     It turned out that the version on the PC was Internet Explorer 2.0, admittedly a very old browser. But I was astonished that Microsoft's Web site, so rich in Active Server Pages and gee-whiz content, no longer can support older versions of the company's own browser.     What to do? I fired up a copy of Netscape Navigator 4.05 that happened to be on the same machine and downloaded the newest version of Explorer.
Number 205 - June 2000