Yes I agree with this.
Because out of the web came Linux.
And all MS problems come from the Web at the moment, eg. Linux,
viruses, competition,...
Until MS controls the web it will not control Linux and everything else.
MS wants control of all software and in turn all markets that use
software.
Scary indeed.
Ben
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since many organisations have traditionally fallen prey to Microsoft in
the field of the web (internet banking sites, to pick one of many examples),
I thought I'd draw people's attention to the following article:
http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=174156
Key point:
That is the new browser war. Either tweak your web data to approximate
standards now, or risk the cost of a massive Longhorn infrastructure
upgrade in a few years' time. If you don't standardize now, you'll be
forced to buy or build that Longhorn infrastructure in order to access
the communities that Microsoft has managed to attract and bottle up
inside Longhorn.
Another quote:
Make no mistake: Microsoft really hates the web. The new browser war
may appear to be about the emergence of Mozilla and friends with their
polished eye-candy interfaces, but it's really about Microsoft versus
the W3C. Internet Explorer is Microsoft's blocking tactic--never to be
properly web-compliant, never to give the W3C a day in the sun--and
Longhorn technology is the big-stick alternative being built. One of
the purposes of Longhorn is to destroy the web as we know it.
The web is used to provide a variety of services and communities. Part
of the Longhorn strategy is to extract from the web all of the services
with any profit model at all: web magazines, auction sites, news,
online retailers, and so on. When Microsoft tempts these organizations
and communities to Longhorn, the web suffers the death of a thousand
cuts. Over here will be the standards-based web, with a gradually
shrinking set of web sites. Over there will be the future Longhorn-based
proprietary global infrastructure--a global version of the early Novell
NetWare, a sort of stock market/CNN fusion for content delivery. For
Microsoft, the best possible outcome is for the standards-based web to be
reduced to the profitless: a few idealistic hippies, some idle perverts,
and the disaffected. Few others will want to go there; so every day
there will be fewer traditional websites, every day less relevance.
I personally think it would be wise to bring this article to the
attention of relevant people in your organisation. It is a worry.
luke
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