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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rudedog who wrote (51184)	10/14/2000 2:42:22 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 74651

I got a request via email from a friend/online newbie yesterday asking me for all of my contact info, birthday and a few other things for some new Hotmail 'service'. After the standard hotmail tagline was a second tagline... Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at profiles.msn.com --- These are the same folks who a few weeks ago outraged their own personally empowered MSN community by writing user's sigs to MSN spam and mailing it out to everyone in the users address book. --- Letting my friend store this insecure data on a server run by a highly revenue motivated (if not desperate) company with what I perceive as a failing business model wasn't something I was comfortable doing without authentication, to say the least. You can imagine the rant I swung into. I worried for a time that my reply might have caused him to unplug the whole damn computer and walk it out to the barn. <g> --- The "Plan" looks right to me too. It is a well thought out strategical alternative to Java. It lets the remaining Visual Basic programmers feel useful. --- Nevermind 'execution'. The flaw is that MS has no momentum. They have in fact, negative momentum (of which, I'm sure you're aware). Java made it to critical mass. It's there. Microsoft couldn't stop it. Java can't be 'the right tool' for every job, but there's a reason it's becoming pervasive. There's a reason why 'Java' books sell in the top 100 at Amazon, and it isn't some kind of mass hysteria. --- You know where the momentum is right now? Gnu tools (keep your eye on Gnome, btw). It goes back to that little 'Unix Philosophy' book and those tenents. It comes down to the network itself being Unix services running on a Unix infrastructure. --- We're not exchanging messages on Bitnet here, rudedog. <g> -JCJ