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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18375)	4/8/1998 8:26:00 AM
From: Andrew Martin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Whoa. Just found this thread on "Hot Subjects". It's hard to believe anyone can still think MSFT isn't performing it's Swan Song. I've researched the active script encryption and source coding being introduced by SUNW and NSCP and let me tell you all Definitively that MSFT is DEAD. It's OVER for them. SUNW and NSCP are introducing active script source coding through the Netscape Communicator browser and java script. SUNW is developing the source code into a new Operating System (OS) which will effectively REPLACE W95. And sooner than later. Ok, 'who am I and why am I inflaming the thread?' Easy. I'm in the military and have worked with digital encryption wireless communications for several years. I recognize elements of an encrypted communications network and software source coding in the products and development plans of SUNW, NSCP and a whole "group" of other companies , products and even sectors. Simply put folks, there is a group of telecommunication companies which have a well-thought-out plan to encrypt the entire telecommunications network(s). SUNW and NSCP are fronting the software development and introduction of "The Code"-compatible operating system(s) and the browser interface into the system. But don't take my word for it, go to isr.umd.edu and peek inside the 'kitchen' this entire system is being developed in. Look under "Partnerships" and "Industry" to see who's behind this Awesome Plan. Look. MSFT: Static script source coding. You buy the product you get the code. SUNW/NSCP:Active script source coding. You log on, you need the code. Right now the only thing you see of SUNW's code is when you get the IE prompt "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be terminated....". That's the SUNW active script java code online, in a web page that is not allowing the W95 java code (static) to run the java script. Moreover, the active script sends directions to the computer that are normally executed by static script so the OS/browser interrupts it and the browser gets dropped-out since it now carries a code not recognized by the OS. You have to reboot the browser to get an OS-readable code within it. Yes, the fine art of guerilla computing. But hey, that's how MSFT made it's empire so it's kinda hypocritical for them to complain. So what's the chance MSFT can get around this in the long run? Well, considering SUNW and NSCP are strategically aligned with the purveyors of "The Code" whereby the active script code within SUNW and NSCP products are derivatives there is NO CHANCE MSFT can hack-into their system. W95 will be obsolete -like trying to run IBM's PC-DOS 7 in W95. Nada. Zippo. Zero. Kaput. They'll have to beg for the code to make MSFT products compatible but hey, SUNW is already working on the 'replacement' for W95. To sum it up: With static script you can operate programs, websites, etc. which are designed to be compatible to the code after it comes out. The code is static to the software which you purchased off the shelf. With active script coding it is active to the internet you log onto. It can be updated HOURLY if they want to. Every time you log on and you have an "out of date" code you get the "upgrade" by "re-registering" (credit card # please) but only if you have a previous and compatible version of the code and the OS installed on your machine. No code? No internet and no computing. Oh, and in 2005, no television or phone. That's The Code. But hey, that's another diatribe entirely and we've got 7 yr.s to worry about that. It's gonna be AWESOME to the market. My advice is just don't get caught in the wrong companies as the sector(s) shifts to align itself to 'the code'. -Good Luck. P.S. I have a low tolerance for stupidity and ignorance so no "Duhh, what"?'s please.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18375)	4/8/1998 10:51:00 PM
From: Eugene Goodman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan, consider this: My first brush with computers was in the '50s. Then and more strongly in the '60s a companies computer operations were staffed by people who were answerable to no one- a priesthood that continuously won all of the stand-offs, the pissing contests that decided who had the power. In fact for a short while I was one of them. You would enter their church and beg to get some computer time to do an urgent job that has the highest priority. "Tough, we are running the phone book. Try again tomorrow morning." Now I can answer the point raised in your first paragraph. Who will reformat the world? Everyone. That is the benefit of individual PCs. The computer power is distributed to everyone. This is power to the people- true utopian democracy.And when things stop running? Try control-alt-delete. If that doesn't work- pull the plug and bang on the box. It's only a very expensive slide rule. Both the problems and their solutions are simple, obvious and are known, at least by guys of your generation, And Win 95. Why not. I'm waiting for Windows 97 to buy new machines. This ratcheting of demand for computing power by MSFT and the supply by Intel has been going smoothly for over 10 years. Lets hope that it continues. It's more than adding tail fins to a car since each generation of software and machine has improved functionality, creating new demand. New wealth is created. You and many guys like you can look forward to an interesting, very well paid career that would less certain if the the PC operating system were perfect with no need for improvement ever. In my neighborhood 15 year old kids were making $ 50 installing Windows 95. Is this bad? Gene