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Re: Digital Signature Inititiative
On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Stuart Theodore wrote:
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> * regarding the mac question - there already is a version of Internet
> Explorer for the Macintosh, available for download at
> www.microsoft.com/ie. Microsoft is has already announced its committment
> to building cross-platform internet products.
If this is the case, then why did you discontinue Mac support for your
own MAPI standard? While the ability exists to bind cryptographic
protocols onto your MS Mail a/o Exchange via MAPI (as we have done), you
trashed MS Mail for the Mac. Star Nine doesn't even have the ability to
port MAPI onto the Mac, even though you sold them the rights to MS Mail
server software for that platform. You have crippled the
interoperability of your so-called messaging standard between the Mac and
Windows platform, thus preventing third party developers (such as myself)
from being able to incorporate the use of different cryptographic engines
seamlessly across your product line.
Now you say, "Microsoft is [sic] has already announced its committment
to building cross-platform internet products." Excuse me, but this is
exactly the same thing you used to say about cross-platform messaging
products (before you woke up to the Internet).
Now, whenever I have to put together a messaging system or O/A
environment that requires cryptographic protections, I tell my clients to
avoid MS like the plague. Hell, I'd rather work in VIM than deal with
this "MS commitment" that turns out to be empty lies and marketing hype.
Forgive me if I, and any number of other people, assign no merit
whatsoever to any so-called "commitment" from MS, particularly in regard
to security and standards issues.
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