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To: Prognosticator who wrote (1469)	2/16/1999 8:12:00 PM
From: Kal	Respond to of 1600

sounds 'COOL'! what a pun eh!

To: Prognosticator who wrote (1469)	2/16/1999 8:30:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

My advice to Microsoft: Get Real. Go with Java, and do it the best you can. Java is awesome, if you like being slow, substandard multimedia and 3D graphics, running differently on every platform, UIs that are 10 years behind, pretending it runs everywhere, being controlled by 1 company, horrendous development environments, and not being compatible with hundreds of millions of lines of existing code and installed software bases without breaking the imaginary "100% Pure Java" standard.

To: Prognosticator who wrote (1469)	2/17/1999 2:16:00 AM
From: Dragonfly	Respond to of 1600

We all remember Bob(TM) don't we? Yes, I remember when they canned Bob 2.0 the weekend before it was to be shipped to the retailers in a big rollout. Apparently hundreds of thousands of copies were shinkwrapped and on pallets at the manufacturing facility when the plug was pulled---after whipping the developers really hard for 9 months in a deathmarch to get it out--all those pallets ended up in a landfill in Washington (according to one of the ex-BOB developers I worked with.) Talk about demoralizing: Give up your life (and unless you've worked there you have no idea how much of your life you give up-- the Microsoft campus is just like a Branch Dividian compound must be.) and then at the last minute, oh, we made a mistake, product's cancelled. But at least they did TRY to innovate with BOB. It was based on university research, not Microsoft research, of course, so it was a rip off to some extent, but they did TRY. Other than that, though, what has Microsoft ever innovated? A year ago, the battle cry of the Microsoft apologists was "They have to be free to innovate!" but a year after I asked in this forum "innovate what" Not a single significant innovation (Besides new types of extort...uh. "marketing") has come to light. Yeah, Robert, Microsoft is a successful product company, uh-huh.