I've got to have one. It's so cute. I disdain people who use low baud rates. Their aim is to make the Internet work much like the telephone system works without the need for manuals or computer commands. In coming months they hope to develop a layer of software and hardware that will rest atop the Internet, making it more reliable and secure.
Instructions say the form needs to be filled out on the typewriter.
Linda Stone, director of MSN virtual chat team, sees chat as the glue that will bind users to the system. In seeking a competitive advantage over such established on-line giants as Compuserve and AOL Microsoft is banking on their chat service. Indeed they claim that from 40 to 70 percent of their users engage in chat on a regular basis. V-CHAT will represent a significant revenue stream for MSN if it lives up to expectations. All this follows on the heels of Worlds Inc. of San Francisco who introduced the first virtual chat world to the internet last spring.