Microsoft Hatred FAQ  David Schwartz davids at Tue Oct 18
02:29:36 CEST 2005  "John Bokma" <john at> wrote in message
news:Xns96F2A7D8CBC35castleamber at  > So you think that MS,
based on something that might (or might not > happen) somewhere
in a future, burned a lot of money?      By the way, this is
based on the same flawed premise that a lot of  post-Y2K griping
was based on. It went like this, "wow, we get all concerned  and
spent all this money on a problem that never even happened".
Well,  perhaps it didn't happen because we were all concerned
and spent all this  money on it.      It is still a realistic
possibility that operating systems will be  commoditized and
something other than the end-user's OS will be the target  for
most software development. It could be the language (like Java),
the  server (like the guts of web-based applications), or the
browser (like the  UI of web-base applications).
Microsoft's current stance is to prevent this from happening if
they  can. If they can't, then they