At 03:21 AM 8/9/01 -0400, William T Wilson wrote: >On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > >> Is M$ really thinking about this? That would really be the end of the >> internet. > >I doubt it. There's no real thing that Microsoft can offer that would >make end-users *want* to use their proprietary protocol. On the other >hand, there are a lot of people that would really, really not want this to >happen - like all those web and database servers running Unix. Plus, >Cisco controls as much of the router market as Microsoft controls the >desktop market. They aren't likely to just decide to start taking orders >about how to do networking from Microsoft just because Microsoft wants >them to.
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