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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17490)	2/14/1998 8:14:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Throwing Windows off the desktop is too risky, but you can preserve some OS choice infoworld.com I'll leave the serious content to the reader and just give you the humorous lead-in. Two recent Microsoft communiques have sent my Absurd-O-Meter off the scale. First, there's the Microsoft ad that implores you to install the Windows NT Workstation because it is faster, more robust, and yada yada yada. What will you be upgrading from? Windows 95, of course, which I guess must be slower and more fragile. Who writes this ad copy? News flash to Microsoft: You're supposed to badmouth your competitors' products, not your own. Then there's the new Palm PC, for which the company that once claimed ownership of the word "Windows" borrowed "Palm" from a popular personal digital assistant. It's going to run -- I am not making this up -- as a "stripped-down version of Windows CE." Shows what I know. I thought Windows CE was considered as the stripped-down version. WinCE indeed. I'm always up for a good inadvertent acropun. WinCE- think Microsoft is going to end up with 16 Windows flavors to match the 16 Pentium II's in the pipe? Which is Bascom, and which is Robbins? Cheers, Dan.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17490)	2/14/1998 8:21:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Better get a broom and a real big rug infoworld.com Just so you don't think the Infoworld brigade is unaware of that other company, they get hit too, on the upcoming source release. Essentially there are two problems. One is that when you shovel code out the door as fast as Netscape has, the coding practice you use isn't exactly top-notch. Reminds me of the soda jerk who serves a record number of sundaes and then discovers he can't find his miniature poodle; there's stuff lurking in the code that the folks at Netscape don't exactly want to share with the world. Little bugs here. A few warts there. That kind of thing. The other minidilemma is apparently that there is more than a negligible amount of rough language in the program comments. Not quite enough lingua and a little too much franca. Or put another way, it's one thing to suggest that Microsoft attempt a certain act with a family member, but it's quite another to write it down and send it to 10,000-plus people. To tell the truth, this is the first thing I thought of when the source announcement came. Although more on the first issue than the second. I imagine the Netscapers took full advantage of their constitutional right to call Bill Gates a hairball, before the antitrust division comes through and negates that right. Cheers, Dan.