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To: Jack Whitley who wrote (27246)	6/27/1999 3:03:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Respond to of 42771

Thank GOD for the W3C and Tim Berners-Lee continued hard work. It's sad but since 1995 MSFT has actively moved to "dilute" the purity of HTML and since it was unable to do so, began working on the DCOM and DCOM+ model for their Win32 platform. Thankfully this jaggernaut was seriously slowed by SUNWs Java :) Now that DHTML is making some noise and XML is beginning to clearly define our future path, I feel that MSFT can't possibly hope to enjoy a bigger position in the near future. But that said, this DOJ case has more repercussions that the average person knows or can even think of. By bundling the browser into their OS they have managed to get their foothold into that one area which was totally open and free -- web standards. See, they couldn't change the standards the correct way (by proposal, testing, critique and open source) so what did they turn to? Usual MSFT business tactics -- If MSFT can rule the browser war, they WILL DICTATE what is used to create web content by default since their product will be the de facto presentation platform. So whatever their product supports, web developers will HAVE TO USE. Re-read that last sentence -- HAVE TO -- sounds great right? It's really sad to think they are getting away with it and people are actually out there APPLAUDING the "great work" this company is doing. Some years later history won't be as kind (IMHO). PJ Strifas