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By brshoemak on 3/15/2010 10:36:00 AM , Rating: 5
How about Microsoft just makes a slot machine app, you pull the on-screen handle and whatever browser icon pops will be downloaded and installed automatically. Just for fun they should throw in IE3 (yeah, 3) and Netscape 4.

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By Camikazi on 3/15/2010 10:38:18 AM , Rating: 2
Sounds like fun, but do IE3 and Netscape 4 even work in Windows 7?

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By martinrichards23 on 3/15/2010 11:18:39 AM , Rating: 4

I think you mean:

Sounds like fun, but do IE3 and Netscape 4 even work with the internet?

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By seamonkey79 on 3/16/2010 12:05:01 AM , Rating: 2
Since neither of them really worked when they were brand new, I'm not sure that would even be funny 0_0

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By MrBlastman on 3/15/2010 12:48:00 PM , Rating: 1
Netscape 4 was so awesome that it would randomly corrupt your file allocation table on whatever partition you were saving data to from it. Don't believe me? It happened twice. I stopped using Nutscrape and the problem never happened again.

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By porkpie on 3/15/2010 1:01:45 PM , Rating: 1
You're right; I don't believe you. Netscape (and nearly all other software) doesn't make API calls at a level that would lead to FAT corruption.

Correlation does not equate causation. Just because cities with public water have higher rates of AIDs does not mean drinking city water causes AIDs.

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By MrBlastman on 3/15/2010 1:18:20 PM , Rating: 1
Then explain this:

Immediately after clicking save on Nutscrape (twice), the FAT was corrupted and I had to reformat the partition.

If I press a button, and x happens multiple times, then the button must be leading to the action, right? They call that cause and effect.

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By porkpie on 3/15/2010 1:23:06 PM , Rating: 1
At a guess, I imagine you simply had your disk in such a state that any piece of software making that particular API call would have led to the corruption. Or perhaps the corruption was already there, but until a certain size file (or a file in a particular place) was saved, it was not evident.

The nice thing about software is that its usually 100% deterministic. If Netscape had a systemic problem with FAT corruption, other users would have reported it. Furthermore, for this to even be possible, they would have had to be making API calls at a lower level than application software typically uses, which not only would be have risky, but pointless.

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