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To: techreports who wrote (47466)	10/3/2001 7:25:27 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 54805

Did you not read the article? The author felt that with-in one year Microsoft could have over 100 million PCs with their new proprietary protocol. Regardless of the number of new PCs sold in any given year, minus the number sold with other or no operating systems, how do you think this compares to the total installed base of all clients accessing the internet? And what about the servers which are dominated by Unix and Linux machines? A communications protocol is not like personal productivity software. If you are the on latest version of Word and no one else is, you can use all the whiz-bang features as long as you don't care about sharing files. You can even read in files from older versions, but you can't use the latest features and export them in a form that will be readable by older versions. Having a communications protocol different from your ISP is basically useless. Also consider that the internet is not a US local thing, but a world wide thing. but Microsoft probably has a much better chance at replacing TCP/IP than any other company on the planet. Something of a non-statement, don't you think since internet protocols are not controlled by a company and virtually every other company in this space would fight adoption of a company proprietary protocol. Sorry, I just don't buy it.