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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14213)	11/18/1997 10:43:00 AM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Well, it's pretty obvious that ActiveX has been a failure on the internet (considering that I haven't heard a peep from Microsoft on that front for many months). So anyway, can we call JDK 1.2 a cross-platform version of ActiveX? The security model is sort of similar to how ActiveX can be given varying levels permission based on if it comes from the internet, intranet, etc. techweb.com

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14213)	11/18/1997 12:44:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

How to Control Microsoft nytimes.com The good gray Times weighs in with a, er, moderate editorial on the issue. Relatively short and non-inflamatory. Cheers, Dan.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14213)	11/18/1997 12:57:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Addressing a Trade Show, on the Horror That Is Virtually a Reality nytimes.com Comdex seems to have become a raw nerve of sorts in the press corps. This is a generic article, so nobody take offense. In computopia, computers and communications are easy to use and always work. In the real world? Let's see." On a huge screen, a montage of error messages dissolves into excerpts from baffling manuals and helpless help screens. To the beat of a busy signal, a Web page full of meaningless graphics crawls glacially down the screen. People sitting at computer screens slap their foreheads and pound keyboards frantically. A technical support representative wearing a telephone headset calmly asks, "Have you tried reformatting your hard drive?" [ a personal favorite, needless to say] "Admit it: We tend to deliver products that are neither easy to use nor stunningly reliable. So how have we managed to survive and prosper? Two words: fault tolerance. I'm not talking about fault-tolerant computers. I'm talking about fault-tolerant consumers. ... "We must no longer paper over our mistakes with something we call 'support.' We must stop calling defects 'issues.' We must understand that customers do not want to be computer technicians. We must develop something called humility." [Fred Moody would approve, at least one day last week] A murmur ripples through the crowd. Several people get up to leave. "Where's everybody going? Can't you take a joke? Quality? Get real! Spend too much on quality, the competition will eat you alive. And our customers aren't going anywhere. Our practice of making quality a low priority is so pervasive in our industry that we've given them nowhere to go. As long as they think things have to be this way, fault-tolerant consumers remain the greatest bulwark against fault-free computers. "And what does that mean? It means that for us, computopia is already here." Also in today's Cybertimes: PR, News and Comdex: A 'Dance That's Not a Duet' nytimes.com Cheers, Dan.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14213)	11/18/1997 3:55:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan - The race is on. Which will ship first, NT5 or Mysterious Merced? If you start a pool, I'm in for NT5 shipping first, as I'm not convinced Merced will ever ship. -justinb

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14213)	11/18/1997 6:28:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Gates launches Exchange Server 5.5, admits NT 5.0 slip zdnet.com Gates also said Hydra, the multiuser version of NT, would be the answer to the touted thin client market. Right, Bill, except it's essentially the same thing as X Windows, which we all coulda had instead of that other Windows system, 10 years ago. Oops, except for that all-important proprietary lock thing. "There are a number of vendors that have promoted thin clients, but they are flawed in that they are incompatible with PCs and their approach requires the use of a browser to run locally," Gates said. "Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything every development by man." Bill's got a point here, but he sorta slipped up too. The browser the thickest application ever invented? Oops. Cheers, Dan.