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To: Don Dodge who wrote (831)4/12/1997 12:36:00 PM
From: Mitchell Jones   of 10309
 
There are no atheists in fox-holes and there is no room for agnostics in this war. Here is where that tactic leads:

Gates Blasts Network Computers
(04/11/97; 3:56 p.m. EST)
By Jeff Bliss, Computer Reseller News

HOUSTON -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has criticized the
network computer, calling it a device out of step with
Windows-based corporate America.

"It's hard to know what the NC stands for, other than 'not
compatible,' " Gates said during a speech at Compaq
Computer Corp.'s Innovate Forum 97.

"Here we don't have a separation between hardware and
software," leading to an array of applications that do not work
together, Gates said.

He slammed thin clients for spawning a plethora of what he
called proprietary operating systems.

Gates said that NCs also did not provide the support for
multi-tasking and printing now available on PCs. Thin clients
are not optimum for handling the large amounts of code
required to run most Internet browsers. "When you have a
browser, that is not thin," he said.

Gates gave a broad outline of current Microsoft products and
the impending release of Wolfpack clustering for client/server
environments. "Clusters are the last great architecture not yet
applied to PC space," he said.

Mitch
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