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Microsoft's Robert Hess has been working in the DNA group for the last few months studying system-level scripting on Windows. He asked for our input, and we said that filling in the gaps in application scripting interfaces was the biggest issue. Windows has enough scripting architecture in the OS for now. We need to build real demo apps, sample code that solves real problems that come up on customer LANs, to be sure the apps have enough of their functionality covered thru their scripting interfaces.

Also we should do menu sharing on Windows. I miss it!

{mainresponder.discuss.cowskulllink ("The lead developer of Quake, John Carmack, says: "I still can't give the Mac an enthusiastic reccomendation for sophisticated users right now because of the operating system issues, but they are working towards correcting that with MacOS X." Click on the cow skull to read my comments.", 1968)}

I would like to thank everyone who participated in the Discussion Group today.

InfoWorld: US Web founder quits. "..many of today's high-tech discoveries are actually products of the government using reverse engineering on materials discovered at the site of a supposed UFO crash in Roswell, N.M., in 1947."

In March 1997, working with Apple, we did a survey of the Mac Internet tools market. I wonder how many of these products are still moving, and how many of these developers have a realistic idea of where Apple is going?

Hey that trip down memory lane is interesting. Look what we were able to pull off when we decided to work together. We're still here. Many of the people we worked with at Apple a couple of years ago are gone. But the will to work together is still here.

Jakob Nielsen: Collecting Feedback From Users.

CNN: Microsoft OEM Pricing in Dispute.

Gamelan interviews Sun's Lew Tucker.

IETF: HTML Refresh Language.

Mail Starting 1/11/99.

News.com: Dell has a new Latitude. It's not beige!

InfoWorld: SGI's new NT Machines. Looking for a next-generation system for creative and technical visual workers? It could be that SGI's machine runs all your favorites, including Frontier. More apps than Apple's next-gen OS? Almost certainly. PS: Their machines have floppy drives.

From MacInTouch: Apple today is holding an "invitation-only" developer briefing in Cupertino with an "all-star cast" for a day of sessions covering the Mac OS, QuickTime, Java, AppleScript, hardware and "I/O technologies."

That meeting was attended by scabs who we're going to throw out of the software developer's union when we take over. Boca or Bucha! {qbullet.imageref ("sidesmiley")}

     

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