On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Aleph One wrote:
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Rich Graves wrote:
It may interest you to know that Microsoft recently licensed a bunch of stuff from NetManage (San Jose Merc, no real details given).
Another interesting tid bit is thta the code for Microsfot Internet Explorer is licensed from Spry which has lincensed Java from Sun so theoricly Microsoft will get Java for free (so to speak) now the question is wheather they will be stupid enough to strip it out of their product because they want to push VB.
And the answer, if you believe what they say, is in a series of PowerPoint presentations and speech transcripts on Microsoft's Web server. http://www.microsoft.com/internet/ I found Bill Gates' presentation rather amusing because he uses the term "broadband" to mean "high bandwidth." He seems to have gotten confused because ATM is supposed to be both. The bit on server tools says Microsoft plans to do everything. Doesn't look like they've really decided on anything. Microsoft Internet Explorer will become the browser choice for everyone. Microsoft Network will ensure that its content is fully accessible to any browser. Microsoft's strategy is to support VB. Microsoft's strategy is to support Java. Microsoft's strategy is to support Blackbird. Microsoft's strategy is to support HTML and VRML. Microsoft supports Internet and Windows Standards (the latter are not defined). The pictures were pretty, though, especially in the Maritz piece. (Which was actually prepared by Bill Conte... how convenient that MS Office saves the author's name and other summary information by default.) -rich