Correction: Netscape FTP address wrong

The conspiracy theorists can relax: I made a big boo-boo yesterday in thestory about Netscape releasing Communicator 4.5 where I posted the URL ofthe Netscape ftp site as ftp://ftp.microsoft.com. It should have read

Paul Thurrott

October 19, 1998

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The conspiracy theorists can relax: I made a big boo-boo yesterday in thestory about Netscape releasing Communicator 4.5 where I posted the URL ofthe Netscape ftp site as ftp://ftp.microsoft.com. It should have read ftp://ftp.netscape.com.

LOL.

I guess no one will believe this, but it was an honest mistake. I think Itype the phrase "microsoft.com" so often, it just comes flying off the fingers every time I go to type an Internet address. I wasn't seriously trying to push people from Netscape to Microsoft. Really.

Anyway, Sorry about that, and I'm sorry I can't personally respond to the 100+ people that emailed me about the error. I do kind of appreciate thatmost of them found it humorous, however. Thanks,

--Pau

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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