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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14902)	12/14/1997 11:24:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Microsoft Ruling Impact: Little Short-Term, Much Long-Term zdnet.com Well, we can hope, anyway. Now, all bets are off, regarding Microsoft's intent to deliver OSR 2.5, as well as versions of Windows 98 and NT 5.0 with IE integrated into the operating systems. Yesterday, Microsoft was moving forward with its Windows 98 plans, and briefed a number of partners, press and analysts on its plans to release Beta 3 of Windows 98 within the next week or two. OEMs expected final shipment of Windows 98 by mid-1998. OEMs are expecting Beta 2 of NT 5.0, which also is slated to include integrated IE code, by mid-1998, with final shipment around the end of 1998 or, more likely, early 1999, they said. Will they or won't they? Only Bill knows for sure. Actually, even he probably doesn't really know at this point. Merry Christmas, Bill! Cheers, Dan.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14902)	12/14/1997 11:41:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft's Java On The Server Strategy: DOA? zdnet.com Leave out the "On The Server" here, and it's all the same. Microsoft's Java strategy never did make sense except on the business is war front. My ilken sister Mary Jo leads off with a nice ref to December 7, 1995, a day that will live in infamy: This week marks two years since Microsoft Corp. officially proclaimed the Web, and by extension, Java, were important. But you'd never know the Redmonian earth had moved to look at Microsoft's current and pending product line-up. In his by-now infamous 1995 Pearl Harbor Day speech, Bill Gates acknowledged - amidst much hand-wringing -- that Microsoft nearly missed the Internet boat and committed to web-enabling every product and technology under development within the company. ... Hey, but we have it on good authority that that was all just a ruse, Bill knew all along. I mean, that's what they said in court, it must be the truth, right? Now, it looks like only the Java interface to Microsoft Transaction Server may ever see the light of day. There's no discussion of the highly celebrated Java version of DCOM. The Java version of ADO, or ActiveX Data Objects-despite being on the cover of the November/December issue of Microsoft's Developer News newspaper-is a dead product. There's no sign of any sort of Microsoft Java management services. Microsoft seemingly has decided that Win32 is the one and only platform to which developers want to write. Oops, I got to drop a note to old Mary Jo on this one. Ballmer and Co. explained this all back in July or so when they officially declared war on Java, as opposed to that day of infamy "Embrace and Demolish" thing. Microsoft hasn't decided that Win32 is what developers want to write to, they've decided it's what Microsoft wants developers to write to. Oh, right, it's what the customers want. It's where we want to go. It's all part of the integrity and uniformity of the Windows experience. It's ... oh, never mind, I can't compete with the news stream for ironic humor these days. Cheers, Dan.