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To: uu who wrote (6510)	1/5/1998 3:41:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

1. Windows NT will be a huge success. Not as a standalone product ... as a componet of a server centric architecuture. Perhaps as a traditional applications, file and print server but I am talking about distributed computing. Not the process everything locally fat-client or the Johnny-come-lately don't process anything locally Windows Terminal. In fact, anything which isn't stand-alone fat-client is just a defensive reaction to Java-based computing. They don't have a component model that is viable nevermind a viable infrastructure. This is the hugely massive gap that exists between what Java and CORBA technologies offer versus what Microsoft is offering. 2. Microsoft is aggressively becoming a dominant player in the media and telecommunication sector of technology ! They are aggressively becoming the dominant spender and nothing else. They aggressively fell flat on dominant face in the online services arena. I only see a single success: a mediocre set of proprietary APIs for desktop applications which Intel made into a commodity on a massive scale. That aside, Microsoft has produced an impressive string of high-profile failures. 3. Despite all its shortcomings, Microsoft continues to provide the best software development tools. Some are excellent and some are pathetic. Visual Basic is Microsoft's major area of focus because it is second only to the formula for Coke in maintaining a proprietary product. Java tools are catching up quickly despite having spotted Microsoft 10 years.