Image:Big star.pngWE MADE IT TO THE FINALS! NOW WE NEED YOUR VOTES MORE THAN EVER!!!
 Encyclopedia Dramatica is in contention for the 2nd Annual Mashable Open Web Awards for the wiki category. With your help, we can beat the Wikipedia menace! Plz vote for ED by going here; you can vote once per day, per email address, ballot stuffing encouraged! Just don't forget to confirm the vote via e-mail. VOTE OR DIE!!!

Talk:Netscape Communicator

From Encyclopedia Dramatica

Jump to: navigation, search

Template:Infobox Software2

Netscape Communicator was a proprietary Internet suite produced by Netscape Communications Corporation. Initially released in June 1997, Netscape Communicator 4.0 was the successor to Netscape Navigator 3.x and included more groupware features intended to appeal to enterprises.

Netscape Communicator was available in various editions, such as "Professional" and "Complete". The following components were included in Netscape Communicator (different editions had different components and some components were dropped in later editions):

In 1998, a major update to the program was released as Netscape 4.5. This included many improvements, mostly to the Messenger e-mail client, which now also took on the features of Collabra. However, some of the less popular components, such as Netcaster, were dropped. By the time version 4.5 was released, Netscape had started the Mozilla open source project and had ceased charging for Communicator.

Technically, "Navigator" was supposed to refer to the browser component alone, and "Communicator" was supposed to refer the suite as a whole, as established in version 4.0. But due to user confusion, the names were often used interchangeably. Also, because none of the applications besides Navigator were popular on their own, and because Netscape never produced any other desktop software that approached the popularity of Navigator, people would often refer to both the Communicator suite and the Navigator browser as simply "Netscape".

In November 2000, Netscape Communicator was superseded by Netscape 6, an almost completely rewritten program based on Mozilla, or what later came to be known as Mozilla Application Suite. However, minor updates to Communicator continued to be issued, culminating in the release of Netscape Communicator 4.8 in August 2002.

Contents

[edit] Release history

  • Netscape Communicator 4.0 — June 1997
  • Netscape Communicator 4.01
  • Netscape Communicator 4.02
  • Netscape Communicator 4.03
  • Netscape Communicator 4.04
  • Netscape Communicator 4.05
  • Netscape Communicator 4.06 — August 17, 1998
  • Netscape Communicator 4.07
  • Netscape Communicator 4.08 — November 9, 1998 (Last release for Windows 3.1x and 68k Macs)
  • Netscape Communicator 4.5 — October 19, 1998
  • Netscape Communicator 4.61 — June 14, 1999
  • Netscape Communicator 4.7 — September 30, 1999
  • Netscape Communicator 4.71
  • Netscape Communicator 4.72
  • Netscape Communicator 4.73
  • Netscape Communicator 4.74 — July 31, 2000
  • Netscape Communicator 4.75
  • Netscape Communicator 4.76
  • Netscape Communicator 4.77 — dated March 26, 2001 (Linux version)
  • Netscape Communicator 4.78
  • Netscape Communicator 4.79 — 2001
  • Netscape Communicator 4.8 — August 22, 2002

[edit] See also

Template:Firefox TOC

[edit] External links

[edit] References

<references/>

Template:Netscapecs:Netscape Communicator es:Netscape Communicator zh:網景通訊家

Retrieved from "http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Talk:Netscape_Communicator"
Personal tools

Bookmark and Share