[11897] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Windows 4 as Internet interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Raisch, The Internet Company)
Sat Apr 23 06:33:29 1994
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 16:10:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>
To: designa@aol.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9404221004.tn43691@aol.com>
Ummm, Whither NT? Whither Windows for Workgroups? I mean, we've heard
lots of interesting proclamations from Unca Bill. Vapour don't feed the
tiger.
Microsoft has shown itself to only be interested in keeping its users
"satisfied" with a level of technology which is far, far below current
practice. I have always thought that this was a marvelous way to control
an industry, ...if you can get away with it. (See "The Eyedropper as an
Appropriate Method of Distributing Computer Technology.")
But the Internet and its technologies represent significant and perhaps
fundamental *loss* of control. In fact, I would expect that the Internet
would scare the <explitive deleted> out of a company like Microsoft, in
much the same way that it does Prodigy, CompuServe and AOL.
The real question here, though, is really much larger than pretty interfaces
and operating systems designed to support technologies like TCP/IP. Ask
yourself why IP services cost far, far more than a simple commodity like
telephone services. When someone licks the service and support problems,
then I'll be impressed with Billion Dollar Bill's pontifications.
<The application you were running has stopped responding to Windows.
Perhaps your subnet-mask is improperly configured?>
Besides, I think the Fed will have a little input into the future plans of
Microsoft. More sooner than later.
-- </rr> Rob Raisch, The Internet Company (It's been a loooooong week.)
