Mindshare and Java
Rich Graves
llurch at networking.stanford.edu
Thu Apr 25 12:54:15 PDT 1996
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Blake Coverett wrote:
> There was an official announcement at their Professional Developers
> Conference a few weeks back. In short, full support in the browsers
> (and apparently MS is now the keeper of the reference implementation on
> Win32) and also a full blown Java development environment code-named
> 'Jakarta'.
Yes, I had the misfortune to post that skeptical bit at precisely the same
moment that the public press releases were proving me wrong :-(
My source at the PDC indicated that Microsoft was still pushing Visual
Basic, but I'll accept that there's been a change...
Still, integrating Java and Internet browsing into the OS does not bode
well for Netscape.
-rich
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