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>There are Internet sites out there where you either have to have
Win95
>or Internetexplorer or you can't get on them, not matter what kind of
>computer you have.
There are website that only work if you have Navigator as well - are they equally as evil ?
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>> >Look at java, supposed to
>> >run on all computers but what does Micro$soft do with it?
>>
>> Java is owned and operated by Sun. MS has limited java
support. If the
>> ceo of Sun wouldn't be such a bonehead when it comes to industry
>> standards..etc, java would have a better chance as a platform.
Furthermore,
>> Why should MS promote something which has the potential of being a
threat to
>> it's own share of the operating system market?
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>And you have to have Microsoft's version of Java to get the benefits
of
>the Java on a site that uses MS java. True MS doesn't have to support
>Java. MS has ActiveX or is it AtiveVirus. Sun is trying to stop MS
from
>shipping Java with Win98.
Of course, "normal" Java still works equally well, and faster than any other browser under IE - but that doesn't matter to you does it ?
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