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To: Cory Gault who wrote (18129)	3/20/1998 9:54:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Sure, Cory, here's your explicit declaration. The quotes are from Computerworld, 7/30/97, posted in message 11523 here. You'll have to take my word on the quotes, since the links are expired. I'm sure I could dig the actual stories up if challenged, though not for a content free ad hominem artist like you. The crux of Microsoft's battle plan is its rejection of the JFCs, which it sees as the real threat to Windows. "They are trying to get this to be a runtime layer to which application vendors write their applications. Those are the APIs they want people to write to. We want them to write to the Windows APIs." That's Steve Ballmer in quotes. This sounds like war on Java to me, at least as a portable environment. How this particular version of Java is any good to anyone but Microsoft, well, I'm sure you can explain, font of information that you are. Also describing the Java Foundation Classes as "a competing operating system" to Windows, was Microsoft Group Vice President Paul Maritz. He insisted in a separate interview that the company isn't legally required to include Sun's JFCs with Windows, Internet Explorer or any Microsoft product. "We have no intention of shipping another bloated operating system and forcing that down the throats of our Windows customers," Maritz said. This from the purveyors of NT5, aka NT2K, the OS for the next millennium, now at 30meg lines of code and counting. Which, by the way, all Windows business customers are expected to migrated to, as soon as any of those TBD ship dates get filled in. Irony is beyond the Microsoft crowd, even gross sarcasm fails sometime. Cheers, Dan.