Re: [NOISE] Re: FW: websurfer 4.6

[Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>]

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