Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 07:11:56 -0600 (MDT)
In light of the feedback received on this list about Blackbird as
a multimedia content development tool rather than as a
proprietary browser, I am wondering about the following quote
from Friday's Edupage: "A new content creation tool called
Blackbird would enable content providers to create vibrant
content that could be read only by Microsoft's browser, which
could also be used to peruse the Web, in effect usurping
Netscape's utility."
One, of course, would never underestimate Microsoft's shrewdness?
Is the strategy perhaps to use Blackbird to change the normal,
graphic standards of the Web by beefing up the level of content
production, then offering net surfers the "option" of viewing
that new, engaging content through MS's "proprietary" browser.
Seems to me it is the same corporate strategy as Windows, albeit
online. I recall that in the old DOS days one didn't "need"
Windows, but now one certainly does.
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