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To: paul who wrote (5235)	10/30/1997 2:05:00 AM
From: gordon	Respond to of 64865

What are MSFT's true thoughts of java behind the door? check news.com (By Microsoft group vice president Paul Maritz.) ."[Web] pages become applications." ."Netscape/Java is using the browser to create a 'virtual operating system.'" ."Windows will become devalued, eventually replaceable?" He went on to assess Microsoft's weaknesses, including the fact that the company had "no control over Java." The first item listed under "product strategy" reads, "Catch Netscape 2.0, neutralize Java." To do so, Maritz proposed using IE 3.0 and its ActiveX component architecture, as well as the Java support and tools the company would produce in the coming months. "Java cannot be an advantage for Netscape," he wrote. Gordon Shen