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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1226)6/11/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: Dragonfly  Read Replies (1) of 1600
 
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?

I'm saying they will not put out a version of Office that does not have direct access to the Windows APIs. I'm not saying they don't have qualified people, but that they are not capable- that is not how Microsoft as an entity operates. IE: Microsoft has access to programmers that are capable of it, buy Microsoft as an organism is incapable of doing it. Office with direct access to Win32 is not Java. Until Windows is Dead and Microsoft has to put Office on Java to survive, it is not capable of doing so-- for the purpose of the companies' existence is to further Windows.

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