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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14188)	11/17/1997 3:37:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 24154

Sun approved as Java standard-bearer By a 20-2 vote, the ISO has approved an application by Sun Microsystems Inc. to turn Java into a standard. The only countries in opposition were China and the United States. -- ZDNN zdnet.com

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14188)	11/17/1997 4:58:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Gates' Comdex Keynote Starts Show Off With A Whimper, Not A Bang zdnet.com But the industry icon get low marks for innovation and stimulation. The real themes came only late in the talk, when Gates re-iterated that the Internet, scalability, and simplicity were the main areas of Microsoft focus. Unfortunately, his way of illustrating the company's commitment to all three was to show off Windows NT 5.0 Beta 1.0 using Microsoft's "intellimirror" technology. Intellimirror is designed to simplify client PC - or NetPC - software updates through profiles stored in the company's upcoming Active Directory, a component Gates promised for Beta release "early next year." Yet the demonstration was painful - painfully slow in presentation, painfully flaky in stability, and painfully slow in performance. So why was the Gates presentation so unfulfilling? Perhaps in the face of the Department of Justice's investigations Gates is unwilling to stick Microsoft's collective neck out by placing a new stake in the computing ground. Or perhaps he believes the industry is so buyer-ready for nearly any technology the company trots out - short of Microsoft Bob - that a hard sell is unnecessary. Whatever the reason, we can only hope that Gates' closing remark - "We're just at the beginning, there's a lot more great things to come" - is true, both of Microsoft's technology, and of the Comdex show. Cheers, Dan.