- From: Daniel Hiester <alatus@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 06:27:40 -0800
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
--A look in some of the major London bookshops this Saturday indicates that none of the popular computing authors seem to be aware of this! They tend to reflect the market amongst "HTML" authors.-- Well, here's the off-topic explaination as to why this is all over the American news... In the US Antitrust suit against Microsoft, it was ruled a few weeks ago that Microsoft is monopolistic. While various American news magazines speculate what the court might do to the company, they also speculate that portable computing will grow in popularity in the coming years, and some portable computer manufacturers, such as 3Com and Nokia, to name a few, have been and will continue to explicitly avoid using the Microsoft Windows CE operating system in their products. Simply put, the articles make it sound like a new generation of computing is about to begin, much like the transition between super computers to desktop PC's that began almost twenty years ago, and Microsoft will be left out of it, because the corporations in control of this transition are tired of Microsoft's OS being on 90% of all computers. However, I wish I could visit a few major London book shops... :) Daniel
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