“Struggling to close the gap in its war with Microsoft,
Mozilla.org has released a preview of its first full-featured Web
browser….“
“It’s not definitively an alpha,” said Mitchell Baker, whose
title is “chief lizard wrangler” for Mozilla.org. “Alpha means a
lot of things to a lot of people. Our goal in putting out an alpha
is to label it as something that someone can use regularly for
their browser and mail client….”
“Differences between the Mozilla browser and the one that
Netscape will ultimately ship are already apparent. Mozilla’s, for
instance, features an instant messaging client that ostensibly
would compete with AOL’s market-leading AOL Instant Messenger. And
Saito promised instant messaging innovations from Netscape in
version 5.0, though he declined to discuss them.”
