But the industry is structured differently. Before Microsoft there was IBM and then DEC, both enormous concentrations of power. For some reason that maybe I'll understand someday, the computer business tends to concentrate power in a single company. It used to revolve around hardware, but now it revolves around software. Someday maybe the computer world will be driven by personalities and personal reputations as the entertainment world is.
People make software and people use it.
Someday maybe it will be that simple. MSIE is my default browser because Microsoft implemented a feature for the Frontier community that makes object distribution thru the web easier for us. I don't think this memo is on the web anywhere. Tuesday I received an email from Christian Jacobsen, an engineer at JavaSoft, explaining how he worked with Russ Arun from Microsoft until there was an impasse. It's even worse than it appears.