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To: gao seng who wrote (220355)	1/20/2002 2:38:51 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

LOL! Face it Tom, just another decade dominated by the Redmonians! :) By the end of the decade they will dominate front office and back office applications. Then the Borg will assimilate Linux.

To: gao seng who wrote (220355)	1/20/2002 3:31:11 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

gao, you seem to be an expert on mediocre technology. You have been assimilated and I'd guess have lost the ability to do critical analysis of software technology. As I've said for a long time, anyone who uses MSFT for mission critical applications is retarded or criminally negligent. It seems Mr. Gates finally agrees with me. From EWEEK.... In his memo, Gates praises his company's work on the .Net Framework but said that it will all be for naught if security, privacy and reliability continue to pose problems for the platform. "Over the last year it has become clear that ensuring .Net is a platform for Trustworthy Computing is more important than any other part of our work," he wrote. "If we don't do this, people simply won't be willing or able to take advantage of all the other great work we do." Gates' memo comes on the heels of two embarrassing security and reliability gaffes for the company. For five days earlier this week Windows customers were unable to download a critical security patch for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer when a DNS error made the server with the patch unreachable. And, on Wednesday, the Microsoft Developer Network servers became overloaded when millions of developers simultaneously tried to download the final code for the .Net Framework. eweek.com