Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5132
By the way, this is based on the same flawed premise that a lot of post-Y2K griping was based on. It went like this, "wow, we get all concerned and spent all this money on a problem that never even happened". Well, perhaps it didn't happen because we were all concerned and spent all this money on it.
It is still a realistic possibility that operating systems will be commoditized and something other than the end-user's OS will be the target for most software development. It could be the language (like Java), the server (like the guts of web-based applications), or the browser (like the UI of web-base applications).
John Bokma By giving IE away for free, by ripping off spyglbutt, by paying OEMs to not include Netscape. By bundling IE. By abusing standards. By contracting with sites to include non-standard IE features...
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 05:26:51 +0000, John Bokma "Again"? What exactly *is* your point? You seem to be oscillating from "Microsoft doesn't care what browser people use" to...
Microsoft's current stance is to prevent this from happening if they can. If they can't, then they'll try to make sure that whatever they can't stop has Microsoft at the heart of it whether that's by "Microsoft thin-client OS" or "Microsoft Java" or whatever.
By the way, if you read my other posts, you can see that I have no anti-Microsoft bias. They have every right to have their vision of the future of computing and to put their resources behind it. And it's hard to find a company whose future vision doesn't include their products in some important place. ;)
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