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

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (902)	5/13/1998 11:59:00 AM
From: Kal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

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. Rhetoric. By the same token, I guess it is just you who doesn't see it. That's because Exchange/Outlook was designed and marketed as a client for Exchange server. It's primary function was not for Internet mail. That's the problem. Instead of following internet email standards that've been established for a while, MS decides to subvert and add quirks, why? , so that you're stuck with using their product, which is done by leveraging their OS monopoly. 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? So current behaviour proves what they would have done in the past? Interesting. It's the other way around. 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? But isn't it obvious to you that this is dangerous? First, The functionality offered is marginal, and could be duplicated for other browsers if so they choose. In essence you're forced to use their browser in accessing the internet which supposedly is a standards based environment. The bottom line is Microsoft wants to lock you into using their products, free or not, for MS is interested in dominating everything! You just can't. Second, by that act, they're locking out people who wish to use other browsers to conduct business/etc on the net. Microsoft is only interested in dominating the market. Do you at all see this? It's OK to argue back and forth, but do you at all see this? Or is microsoft becoming a fanatical religion to you? Find me a version of Java that will run all Java programs. I'll give you a dollar. But you don't see. There is a difference. Microsoft added and changed, intently, many functions to Java, in an attempt to break its run-anywhere capability.. to force developers to write to the windows platform.. And all their java tactics seem to be failing. The number of attendants at their last conference speaks volumes. Gates is wetting his pants in fear of losing MS' dominance. The threat is real.

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (902)	5/13/1998 1:17:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

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. Really? So tell me, how was email routed back in 1988? (This is a test.) Microsoft "supports" the protocols but puts variations in them that are not compatible with other vendors products. This is an effort to subvert the protocols. Just as they have with Java they have with all the other protocols. You haven't provided anything to question that assertion, so I think it stands. (IE: I think you were going in a different direction and I don't want to change the subject.) Dragonfly