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Microsoft's campaign to take over the world is bringing it into conflict with a few people.
Is the cold war between Sun and IBM over Java heating up?
Microsoft is leading a charge back to the desktop. Will the world follow?
Widespread adoption still depends on the computer industry getting its definitions straight and clearing up the lingering customer confusion about these two related--but separate--concepts.
What do we mean by open standards anyhow?
Can 'standards' and 'standardization' be two unrelated concepts?
There are three main factors that affect the return on investment of any user interface technology: ease of use of the application, ease of deployment and on-going maintenance, and ease of initial development.
Is Microsoft ready to move onto the 'extinguish' phase with the Web browser?
One valuable capability of open standards is to let customers decouple application decisions from infrastructure choices
Industry gurus claiming that technology no longer matters to Corporate America may be drawing the wrong conclusion from the wrong evidence.
If the IT industry wants to be more like other, mature manufacturing industries, then large vendors need to be willing and able to integrate and resell software components as easily as they do hardware parts
What do you think about when you write Java?
Java takes a language-specific approach to solving problems, .NET takes a platform-specific one
Standards, and corresponding monopolies, can occur naturally
Single points of failure can be entire systems. Prevention may lie in "fencing in".
Software vendors are in a better position than enterprises to have the full-time user champions that Extreme Programming requires
Microsoft makes money from Windows desktops, not from browsers
Sometimes you want them, sometimes you need them
What is Microsoft trying to do?
