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blufive ([personal profile] blufive) wrote2002-09-04 10:10 pm

Do you really want....

...Microsoft to control how 95% of the world sees the world wide web?

There have been times when I disagreed strongly with Joel Spolsky, but this time he's
spot on.

Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] green_amber at [livejournal.com profile] anonymousclaire for the pointer.

[edit: that article was written two years ago, so it's not exactly current, but I'd not seen it before. As a postscript, remember that, in the last 12 months, Microsoft has tried to lock non-IE, non-Netscape4 web browsers out of passport TWICE]
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[identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com 2002-09-05 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Have you seen the recent article in The Reg (http://www.theregister.co.uk) about the whole Pasport/Wallet biz?

[identity profile] blufive.livejournal.com 2002-09-05 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yup. Kinda like watching a train wreck, isn't it?