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To: Kashish King who wrote (7669)	11/23/1997 9:42:00 AM
From: david thor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

<No matter what Microsoft does, they are going to have to come to terms with the fact that once again, they were at the opposite end of successful innovation. Despite owning the desktop, Microsoft has had to abandon it's own dismal technology and replace it with OpenGL, TCP/IP, TrueType, HTML and more. > Rod, If I read you correctly, would you agree that Microsoft's "user-friendly" implementation of TCP/IP in Windows 95 might come back to haunt them, in that it assisted and made more obvious the explosive growth of intra- and internet computing (that is, the end-user's particular operating system was not going to be as important and that computing power would be moved away from the end-user, towards a more central location (aka, "the network computer concept"))? If I'm right, and if I also am correct in believing that you've expanded on this here, what technologies do you feel will hasten this move to a more network-based form of computing, and will Microsoft be a dominant player in this field (for example, the NT server), and where do you feel Borland will fit? Is Microsoft not so much at "the opposite end of it's successful innovation" as a victim of it's "successful innovation"? Regards, Dave