From: peter.potamus.the.purple.hippo@gmail.com   
      
   Leonidas Jones wrote:   
   > 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 support 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      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   
      
   thanks Lee for confirming that.   
      
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