Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>> Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
>>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>>> Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Netscape/AOL HAS STOPPED updating Netscape Communicator, AND
>>>>> Netscape 7 AND Netscape 8 - in fact they stopped several years ago
>>>>> (except for Netscape 8 which went on until earlier this year).
>>>> you forgot about Netscape 9
>>>>
>>>
>>> Netscape 9 never reached a release version
>> sure it did. It reached 9.0.0.6. It was Messenger that didn't reach
>> release version.
>>
>
>
> The 'official' release of Navigator 9x was suppossed to be 01 Febuary
> 2008, it was delayed until 01 March 2008
>
> On that date, AOL officially announced the END of sup****t for all
> Netscape browsers
>
> There was never any 'official' release version simply because the
> product was never officially launched.
>
> All versions of Netscape 9, 9.0, 9.0.0.1 through 9.0.0.5 were
> offically beta releases. 9.0.0.6 which was scheduled to be the 'release'
> version was never officially released until after AOL declared the
> product to be dead.
>
> Messenger never reached beta stage (an alpha release was made)
>
>
>
> If you have a copy of the product (N9 2.0.0.6) you may wish to check out
> the About Navigator and press <Credits> sixth name down
Dan, I am sorry to have to correct you, but Netscape 9.0 was, in fact an
official release, not a beta. We went through alpha testing in house,
then a public beta. 9.0 was a release, and updated through 9.0.0.6,
when the plug was pulled.
Lee
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