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To: Bill Tucker who wrote (9330)	3/6/1998 7:39:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 10836

Well, anybody who's used Windows "objects" like the ListView and the C++ wrappers for those classes knows just how unfit for Java and C++ Windows components and services are -- talk about impedance mismatch. In fact, anything added to Windows has to fit the Visual Basic model which is also known as COM -- anyone who tells you differently simply hasn't the foggiest idea what they are talking about but that doesn't stop them from talking. The upshot of this is that Microsoft isn't at all interested in advancing Java at the expense of Visual Basic. They are only interested in fragmenting it. Sun and IBM had better wake up and take drastic measures to ensure Microsoft does not succeed or I'm afraid we will be using Microsoft's disgusting morass of badly implemented me-too reinventions of 20 year old technology for the next 10 years. Microsoft is costing corporations billions in wasted effort and Bill Gates admission that they need to make their stuff lighter weight, more reliable and more extensible is too little too late and it won't happen ever if that jackass is allowed to continue subjecting us to his crap software. Other than that, I really don't have any strong feelings about it one way or the other and I wish him well.