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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Booth who wrote (64)	10/27/1997 4:39:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

Sorry about the font. 1. JAVA - Microsoft added extensions to JAVA to make JAVA a good language to write Windows apps. This is part of their plan to get more and more Windows-only apps. Nothing wrong with that, it's just good business. You can also write completely portable apps using Microsoft J++. 2. CORBA was _not_ done when COM was written. It was a partial spec, and was missing a lot of important functionality that MS wanted (like object embedding and such). 3. Don't really know much about JScript. One of the things MS does is see a technology, adapt it for their own needs (or basically copy it) and get it into their software ASAP. OLE/COM is a good example of this. If MS had waited around for CORBA, their software would be way behind where it is now. True, there would be a single standard. But if they had to wait around for a commitee to design the spec and add needed functionality, they'd be way behind.