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To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23468)	11/6/1999 4:28:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 24154

Thure, a few years back the number of people using the Net in a productive manner was very small. Gates gave a speech committing MSFT to making the Internet available to everyone. Then Win95 arrived with an integrated browser and MSFT made a number of cash investments in the 'Net. Et voila! Today we have tens of millions of people using the Internet daily. Was that a coincidence? IMHO, it took the resources of an industry giant to bring about this change ... not a group of tiny innovators with a marketing budget of $1,000 and a dream. Craig re: "Surely you're not giving Microsoft the credit for that. Microsoft has done more to harm Internet standards by themselves than all other companies combined." Craig

To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23468)	11/8/1999 8:35:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Thure, >>"The system gave us an Internet that works.." >Surely you're not giving Microsoft the credit for that. Microsoft has done more to harm Internet standards by themselves than all other companies combined. But it is a good kind of harm; like putting cost-effective counterfeit parts in airliners so that children can fly for free. Windows rode the wave of hardware advances and did not drive software anywhere that it was not already heading. Cheers, Norm