Franki wrote: >Don't laugh.. it might be a good thing if they bring this in.. > >Then you'll have Palladium users, and the rest of the world.. > >Sorta like the "microsoft network" when it first started.. >they wanted their own internet, unfortunatly noone else did. > >besides.. they'd end up in court again so quickly... > True - it's tempting to be overawed by the MS Empire, but we should remember their "revolutionary" projects which went belly-up almost immediately: MSN, active desktops, Windows ME .... MS relies on its being a de facto standard (as opposed to a real standard): people want to exchange Word documents, share data with Access, share viruses with Outlook and so on. Splitting that "community" by creating a new "standard" would remove Microsoft's only advantage.
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