Windows Live Mail in Windows 7?

Read he http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIE.mspx
We had Win95 at work immediately after it was released, and IE was included
with the copies we bought. There was an update to it that was available in
the Win95 Plus! pack, but shortly after that, IE updates/upgrades were
readily available for free. I never did pay for IE, unless you call paying
for Win95 the same as paying for IE.
Wasn't Netscape the other biggie at that time? There was another too that I
don't remember. I think CompuServe used Netscape, but I don't remember what
AOL was using at that time (or the other way around).
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SC Tom


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There was a time when they sold IE instead of giving it away.

Don't think so......

Then you should think again.

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of the President, or that we are to stand by
the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American public."
Theodore Roosevelt

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Read he http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIE.mspx
We had Win95 at work immediately after it was released, and IE was
included with the copies we bought. There was an update to it that was
available in the Win95 Plus! pack, but shortly after that, IE
updates/upgrades were readily available for free. I never did pay for IE,
unless you call paying for Win95 the same as paying for IE.
Wasn't Netscape the other biggie at that time? There was another too that
I don't remember. I think CompuServe used Netscape, but I don't remember
what AOL was using at that time (or the other way around).

Mosaic was the first....

"Top" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...

"Top" wrote in message
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There was a time when they sold IE instead of giving it away.

Don't think so......

Then you should think again.

Well I've never paid for it - and I've been using Windows since 3.1, and I
started using Mosaic...

"Gordon" wrote in message
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"SC Tom" wrote in message
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Read he http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIE.mspx
We had Win95 at work immediately after it was released, and IE was
included with the copies we bought. There was an update to it that was
available in the Win95 Plus! pack, but shortly after that, IE
updates/upgrades were readily available for free. I never did pay for IE,
unless you call paying for Win95 the same as paying for IE.
Wasn't Netscape the other biggie at that time? There was another too that
I don't remember. I think CompuServe used Netscape, but I don't remember
what AOL was using at that time (or the other way around).

Mosaic was the first....
THAT'S the one I was trying to think of! Thanks!
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SC Tom

In article , says...

Read he http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIE.mspx
We had Win95 at work immediately after it was released, and IE was included
with the copies we bought. There was an update to it that was available in
the Win95 Plus! pack, but shortly after that, IE updates/upgrades were
readily available for free. I never did pay for IE, unless you call paying
for Win95 the same as paying for IE.
Wasn't Netscape the other biggie at that time? There was another too that I
don't remember. I think CompuServe used Netscape, but I don't remember what
AOL was using at that time (or the other way around).

Netscape was the one I was thinking of. What happened was that both were being sold at the
time. MS decided that in order to crush the opposition (Netscape) they would give IE away. I
think that may have been IE version 4 but I'm not sure of that. I have a "commemorative"
edition of it around here somewhere. No I didn't mean that I paid for it as part of Win 95.
Browsers were available before Win 95.

Ed

--
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the President, or that we are to stand by
the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American public."
Theodore Roosevelt

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:21:02 -0000, Gordon wrote:

"Top" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

"Top" wrote in message
...
There was a time when they sold IE instead of giving it away.

Don't think so......

Then you should think again.

Well I've never paid for it - and I've been using Windows since 3.1, and I
started using Mosaic...

Correct IE was never for sale, check out the video "Download - The True
Story of the Internet - Browser Wars" very detailed account from the
players. (You can get it on iTunes, it was free for while.)
--
Scott

In article , says...

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:21:02 -0000, Gordon wrote:

"Top" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

"Top" wrote in message
...
There was a time when they sold IE instead of giving it away.

Don't think so......

Then you should think again.

Well I've never paid for it - and I've been using Windows since 3.1, and I
started using Mosaic...

Correct IE was never for sale, check out the video "Download - The True
Story of the Internet - Browser Wars" very detailed account from the
players. (You can get it on iTunes, it was free for while.)

From what I'm seeing I was wrong about IE. IE was released free but Netscape was not and IE
was the start of the end of Netscape.

Ed

--
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the President, or that we are to stand by
the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American public."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Top" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:21:02 -0000, Gordon wrote:

"Top" wrote in message
...
In article ,

says...

"Top" wrote in message
...
There was a time when they sold IE instead of giving it away.

Don't think so......

Then you should think again.

Well I've never paid for it - and I've been using Windows since 3.1,
and I
started using Mosaic...

Correct IE was never for sale, check out the video "Download - The True
Story of the Internet - Browser Wars" very detailed account from the
players. (You can get it on iTunes, it was free for while.)

From what I'm seeing I was wrong about IE. IE was released free but
Netscape was not and IE
was the start of the end of Netscape.

Ed

--
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the President, or that we are to stand by
the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American public."
Theodore Roosevelt

That was the way I remembered it, too. But shortly after IE 2.0 (I think)
was released, Netscape became free also. I remember IE being so slow on a
dial-up connection that I went to Netscape for a while. Once broadband was
available in my area, that point was moot, and IE was continuing to develop
while Netscape was becoming stagnant, mostly, IMO, from the buy-out by AOL.
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SC Tom