Already been corrected.
But use yer brains folks..
why in the hell would MS want to miss out on something as big as Java?
It's simply not in their nature.
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From: "Nuno Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 4:00 AM
Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] DynAPI current things
> >Actually, MS just paid Sun 20 million dollars to licence java for their
own
> >use.
> >I don't think we need to worry about there being no Java support in IE6.
>
> Correction: They paid 20 Million dollars to Sun, on court order,
> because of a breach of license. I don't think they intend to support Java
at
> all.
> BUT, I think they will continue to support JS, though they will not
develop
> it
> further, cause that would be against their .net philisophy.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raymond Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 2:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] DynAPI current things
>
>
> > The only thing that concerns me, is our friends over at Microsoft.
While
> > they were moving towards DOM compliance (around the time they ported IE5
> to
> > the Macintosh) they took a hard left with IE5.5 when they decided that
war
> > with the Java/Unix camp was inevitable.
> >
> > I have a lot of concerns with the pending Whistler/IE6 combination,
> because
> > I am pretty sure it's going be a major paradigm shift for them/us (think
> > zero support for client side Java). M$ is moving to align all their
> > products OS/Software around the .net strategy while at the same time
> pushing
> > the "disturbance factor" in other alternative platforms (hmmmm, this
> seems
> > to run like shit on my PC compared to 100% M$ products) as much as they
> can
> > without flagging the Justice Department "to much".
> >
> > Additionally, the long awaited arrival of NS6 came and went without so
> much
> > as a ripple of real impact. I think that good old Netscape finally
found
> > out how to align the bullet-filled cylinder of business blunders with
> their
> > head. NS6 is a dead alternative in the eyes of Joe Consumer. I can't
> even
> > imagine AOL wrapping there consumer online service around this browser
> > instead of IE (that they use now), unless they want to hand MSN
> > marketshare.
> >
> > In no way am I supporting an IE concentric approach. We just need to be
> > aware that "shit is gonna hit the developer fan" in 3-7 months when they
> > release Whistler. They have spent a billion dollars developing this
> release
> > with two goals in mind. Stunt the growth of Java and kill Linux as a
> viable
> > "consumer OS" alternative. By consumer OS I mean our average home PC
> user.
> >
> > A scary fact is that M$ has said they don't plan on releasing IE6 as a
> > public beta. It's gonna release inside the Whistler OS update. Get
> > Whistler, get IE6. This means one thing. IE6 and Whistler are being
> > developed in tandem to create strategic havoc for the Java/Unix camps.
> >
> > Javascript (the DynAPI foundation) will likely survive as a
cross-platform
> > language; it's to entrenched and strategically means little to M$'s end
> > goals. We can :O) a bit here.
> >
> > This is why I don't want to spend a lot of time developing a Java Applet
> > Client/Side I/O device for DynAPI2 Michael. I'm not even sure it will
be
> > supported with the new IE6. I think Java is going to be a server-side
> tool
> > for awhile.
> >
> > In the end, basic DOM support with the DynAPI is probably the best path.
> > But lets be smart (as we can be with limited knowledge) about how we
> enhance
> > that API with input/output shunts to the dynamic server/side world.
> >
> > Laters,
> >
> > Ray
> >
> >
> >
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