In an attempt to keep its enemies closer, Netscape announced a comprehensive strategy to adopt and integrate selected Microsoft technologies into its clients, servers, and overall product architecture. The company announced a sweeping set of changes that should dramatically accelerate the adoption of Netscape products in even the most ardent Microsoft shops. The new strategy is comprehensive enough to be considered Netscape TWO, a much more complete and sensible vision than its predecessor. Many analysts speculated that the adoption of Microsoft standards was very difficult for Netscape, given its public disdain for many of such standards in the past. That may or not be so, but what is clear is that Netscape is being very intelligent about doing whatever it must to win inside the firewall.
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