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To: uu who wrote (6515)	1/5/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Microsoft's involvement in controlling the highways on which the thin client computing will travel goes beyond just a simple online service! Addi, protocols and distributed component architectures based on open standards are what will control thin-client computing. Forget about the pipe, Microsoft doesn't control that and never will. MSNBC was one in a series of dumb moves on Microsoft's part which alienated them from the broadcast industry as a whole. Intel recently backed the broadcasters after breaking ranks with Microsoft. The only segment of industry that finds Microsoft more repulsive than the broadcasting industry are the banks and retailers. That's simply a fact Addi. Having a sack full of money is not going to turn Microsoft from a business appliance software developer to a communications giant. However it will be (and actually is) a huge success in a thin client architecture where a cluster of NT servers working as the middle tier working with a cluster of UNIX servers as the backend servers Addi, you might as well tell us that the sky is green with pink polka dots. There has never been a plan for thin-client computing on Microsoft's part. We aren't talking about terminals. I am aware that Microsoft stuck its thumb in the dam when tens of thousands of customers started buying third-party software to run applications from the server. They also stuck their foot in the door when WebTV was about to go with Java. They just buy whatever they like whenever they like to either kill the technology or make it proprietary. They invent nothing. If you truly compare Microsoft tools with any other software vendor, overall (as far as ease of uability, performance, and memory) Microsoft tools are the best (whether one likes to hear this or not, one can not ignore the facts)! As for Java, despite so many Java tools products that are out there, for example, Microsoft's Visual J++ is the best product out there! Addi, I said some are excellent and some are pathtic and you disagreed which can only mean they have no bad tools, in your opinion. As for J++, it's the same IDE they use for C++ and other language products. Visual C++ is about as interactive as a dead cat and Microsoft aims to keep it that way. Likewise for Java. They have no intention of creating an interactive development environment based on a standard language when that would only compete with their proprietary Visual Basic offering. It's deliberate subterfuge and it's pervasive. Their component model is build around Visual Basic, too. None of that would bother me if it wasn't the toy-like, brittle morass that it is. Microsoft does has the best support services and collateral material. That's something which Sun and others can learn from. Microsoft's technology only serves as a bad example.