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To: Sig who wrote (123343)	5/8/1999 7:18:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Sig and Tread, Remember way back when we were discussing thin clients (last year) and how we would not like to have our personal information held else where. Well the center of the PC centric world that is held so dear by Microsoft is about to embrace the very thing we hated about thin clients. Below is taken from the current issue of Biz. Week that discusses MSFT reorganization and what Gates vision is going forward. <<NEPTUNE RISING. MegaServer foresees a time when computer users will be able to keep much of their professional and personal information and programs on large central servers that they access via the Web. That way, anywhere they are in the world, they can quickly get vital information. The idea behind WinTone is to make it simple for people to plug into the MegaServer--just as easy as making a call from a pay phone.>> Notice the word Wintone, not surprising MSFT would call it that, but what they are talking and what the standard term that will used will be called Webtone. Much like our dial tone we have now, but access not by just by telephone, but a host of devices, from telephones (maybe we will stop calling them that and they will become webphones) to media centers (Music/Video/Games) etc etc. I see a time when actual telephone numbers disappear and web addresses take their place, e-mail is an example of this. We will enter the address in or down load it and use voice or typed in alphanumeric codes to access or contact. Point I'm trying to make about all the above, is that MSFT has seen the light and it's not about a PC on every desk, it's about the Internet and how it has and will change how we work, play, and live. Greg