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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dragonfly who wrote (892)	5/13/1998 9:15:00 AM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

This theory is generally accepted by those who have been on the net long enough to have a wide perspective. Really? Certainly not be me, and I've been using the Internet since 1988. I guess you must mean people that actually built the ARPAnet or something. If Microsoft was there earlier they would have attempted to subvert these protocols. They would have? You must have access to internal documents stating such. Last I checked, MS fully supported HTML (and contributed to the spec), SMTP, POP, FTP, MIME and TCP/IP. Their Java support is questionable, I agree. If Microsoft was there earlier they would have attempted to subvert these protocols. Want proof? They are attempting to subvert all of them now. So current behaviour proves what they would have done in the past? Interesting. Exchange/Outlook kinda supports SMTP and POP, but left in defaults causes people to send mail that's difficult to read in non-MS clients. That's because Exchange/Outlook was designed and marketed as a client for Exchange server. It's primary function was not for Internet mail. Take a look at Outlook Express if you want to compare their Internet-specific client. Also, how does Exchange/Outlook kinda support SMTP and POP? What features of the protocols don't they support? The "wars" over HTML are pretty clear, and you notice the number of sites that use IE specific hooks, that have a relationship with MS. Good example is MSN, you want access to MS's content you have to use their browser. So, people that want to use functionality that isn't avaialable in other browsers, but IS avaialable in IE, should not be allowed to take advantage of it? Microsoft's Java is not actually really Java, and violates the license agreement for Java, but it will run some Java software, but not all, forcing people to write their java applications to the MS version of java, thereby subverting the standard. Etc, etc. Find me a version of Java that will run all Java programs. I'll give you a dollar.