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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (14289)	11/20/1997 2:06:00 AM
From: Larry Sullivan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

If MSFT wants to become known for innovation, they should start submitting RFC's and send applications to ISO or IEEE or ANSI for approval. It's not easy to get your standard adopted by the rest of the industry, or even part of it. MSFT doesn't own any standards that I know of, and they don't have the engineering talent or corporate culture to encourage innovation. Although these are not the body's listed but I thought Microsft was becoming more active in standards bodys namely ECMA, W3C and IETF. The ECMAScript standard had quite a bit of Microsoft work, so did CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). I also understand that they are submitting quite a bit of work like CDF, XML and work on a browser object model to name a few I hace seen in the press from time to time. On the innovation front. My impression is that Microsoft's NetShow product was the first product on the market to use Multicast (Broadcast) IP which is a significant new technology. No I am not saying Microsoft developed Multicast IP ( I really do not know who invented this technology) but they seem to be the fist to commit to the technology and bring a product to market. I would call this innovation. Larry...

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (14289)	11/23/1997 8:15:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

>>> It's true, interpreted computer languages are not new. And, putting the language interpreter in firmware is not new, either ( I seem to remember ROM BASIC in the early PC ). Suns innovation for Java is its promise of standardization and its scalability along with optimizations that will allow it to run as fast as natively compiled code. Now that is really something. And it is ironic that Sun Labs innovated much of the Just-In-Time compiler technology, ignored it, and then only realized its value when a small startup built a commercial product using Sun's own technology, which they then decided to buy out.