Re: Microsoft's Zone

On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, James Love <love[_at_]cptech.org> wrote:
>
> Declan McCullagh and others point out that Micrsoft's
> http://www.zone.com/, a site for Internet games, won't work with
> current versions of Netscape. I used Netscape and received this
> message.
>
> We're sorry. For technical reasons the Zone doesn't yet
> support Netscape Navigator 3.0 and higher browsers. We're
> working to add this support, and we apologize for the
> inconvenience. In the meantime, we invite you to download
> Microsoft Internet Explorer for free.
>
>
> On the Fight-Censorship list, Jeff Schult, commented: "The Zone was not
> started by Microsoft, and was not browser dependent until after MS
> bought it. As a bridge player, I found it irritating to have to have
> MSIE in order to continue using a site that I had enjoyed for quite a
> while."

I am taking a class on Local Area Networks. Thursday evening we were using a utility provided by the Microsoft NT resource kit to allow us to work on a server from remote computers (in this case all in the same room, but none the less remote from the server). After the first few people used the utility, it stopped working. It apparently only works on IE not on Netscape Communicator. It is an interesting marketing approach.

steve melamut
melas[_at_]ils.unc.edu Received on Sat Oct 25 1997 - 13:30:09 GMT