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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
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To: Dragonfly who wrote (1223)6/11/1998 3:42:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell  Read Replies (2) of 1600
 
Anyway, there is no way Microsoft could write Office in Java. They are simply not capable, nor motivated. Microsoft will write Office in Java if they can do it in a corrupted Java that pollutes the waters. In other words, unless they can directly access the Win32 API, Office will never appear in "java" form.

I realize you worked at MS and as such have a unique insight here. But why/how could you say "there is no way MS could write Office in Java"? What would prevent them from dumping loads of cash on the best Java programmers they could get and let them go? Do you mean they are not capable with their current staff? Or are you saying that Java is not capable of handling the feature set/size of Office?
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