Thursday, November 12, 1998

Microsoft's response to Apple's allegations.

MacInTouch coverage of the QuickTime sabotage issue.

Remember BOGU? We all have to do it. That message is for both Microsoft and Apple. I think Microsoft is closer to getting it because they used to do it so well. Apple has, in my opinion, never practiced BOGU. It's good for you. A little humility and even subservience makes better software. It's a yin-yang thing.

Hey, we're one of the top stories on Microsoft's press site. I guess that's not surprising, given the theme of today's piece. Oh well. Haven't heard anything from Apple. I guess that's not surprising either. {qbullet.imageref ("sidesmiley")}

News.com: Intel to invest in Be. Yaaaay!

InfoWorld: Intel's investment game plan. "Clock speeds zipping past 1Ghz." Yipeee!

News.com's new look. Interesting. Here's their equivalent of the Scripting News home page. And their search page. My opinion? Too many sections. I'd make the one-week view the home page, and scroll every story thru it, and rely on the search engine for finding anything older than one week.

MIT Press: Markup Languages Journal.

From Norm Meyrowitz, an exec at MacroMedia: "In a few days, you will have the cross-platform XML parser you desired. We have been quiet, but listening." In a follow-up email, Meyrowitz said that the XML feature was going to be part of Director, so it is not the system level XML parser I was asking about. A cross-platform application-level parser is nice, but we already got one.

CNN: Literary agent Goldberg testifies before the Tripp grand jury. She's not related to Goldberg the professional wr estler, as far as I know.

Wired: Netscape buys AtWeb for $95 million.

Hitachi's BeOS computer. Jean-Louis does BOGU.

8/22/95: What is a Platform?

The discussion group brain transplant had a problem last night. It happens.

Chuck Shotton on the Mail Pages.