THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS IM CLIENT

Doug Barney of RemondMag.com wrote in the latest issue:

"Talk about a dubious distinction. Microsoft last year gained top honors as the most-hacked instant messaging client of 2007. According to some quick and dirty Internet research (read: this information could be wildly inaccurate!), AOL has by far the most IM market share, with Microsoft coming in second with roughly half the number of users.

If MSN is the most hacked, there are only two reasonable theories. First, it's easier to hack MSN than other clients, or second, it's just more fun to hack a Microsoft product. I'd go with the latter!"

Technology History: Netscape

Hoping to reverse a market slide, Netscape announced (in January, 1998) that its web browser would thereafter be free. They also announced that the development of the browser would move to an open-source process.
Later in 1998, AOL purchased Netscape with a $4.5 billion stock transaction. The longer than expected merger process slowed new browser releases -- and Netscape never recaptured its momentum. The good news is that the Mozilla Firefox browser was born out of the open source Netscape project.