Robin, and all,
My wild A$$ guess as to what's happening is that we are witnessing the most grandiose snookering of all time... WIndows NT 5.0 is the heir apparent to the WIn XX line, as well as the NT line, and what do you guess that Win 2000 will be so thoroughly Internet Explorer that the term Internet Explorer will be dropped in favor of WIn 2000 with an obvious transparent extension from the desktop, to the LAN, to the WAN, to the WWW? In other words accessing the web will truly be an INTEGRAL, nay the PARAMOUNT, function of the operating system! The desktop will be thought of as a local foci of the WEB. And then where does the government's case go? How can MSFT possibly strip IE out of Windows when it no longer exists as a "separate" function!
It may be time to bet the farm on Gates... (actually I wouldn't bet the dog house on him, just because his lust for power and control seems a mite excessive, who knows when it would turn on me and swallow my dog house.)
Doug |
