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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15688)	12/30/1997 6:05:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Crushed by Microsoft: What I learned news.com Executive summary: Microsoft is scum. But, everybody here already knows that. This little story comes from a different (though quite hot) area, but it sounds all too familiar- software giveaways, vaporware promises that turn ever more vaporous with time, treating startup companies like the Microsoft farm team, and sending the losers to oblivion. This is the world you guys want to live in, fine, it sounds like one unpleasant place to me, but I'm sure the final edition of Encarta will tell the history the way it should be told- Bill saved us all from- I don't know- the ravages of not living in Windows world. Around the same time Microsoft started giving away the 3D licenses, it also quickly announced some very aggressive plans to deliver its 3D software on all the non-Windows platforms that Argonaut already covered. How many of those products have been delivered? Zip. How many will ever be delivered? The answer to that question can be found in this astonishing statement on Microsoft's Web site: "One day in the not-too-distant future, you'll wake up and discover that the sun is shining, birds are singing, and DirectX 2 is supported on the Windows NT operating system and on the Apple Power Macintosh. We'll let you know as soon as we get some firm dates. Hey, go easy on us--this is the software industry, after all!" Or more accurately, this is Microsoft after all. Whether Microsoft was being deliberately deceitful can probably never be proved. What is clear, however, is that, with a few press releases, the software giant successfully undermined one of our most significant competitive advantages. Consumers now are assured that any video game will run with the 3D graphics technology they have in their PC, except if they own a Macintosh, a Sony, or Nintendo game console, a Unix system, or any non-Windows 95 machine. The notable absence of Direct3D on these other platforms neatly coincides with Microsoft's well-documented strategy of putting Windows everywhere." Well, I stand by the executive summary here. Yes, it's just awful that DOJ is harrassing the Noble Bill who's brought such wonders to us all. Tell it to the Judge, guys. Cheers, Dan, in a matter of speaking.