Things are getting strange ...

[teo]

Resistance is futile, hehehe.

Dont know if its worth speculating yet, but perhaps in time we will see IE on amigaDE, standards, sweet.

btw, I stumbled accros the ports page of www.mozilla.org and found there's a DE version on the way, really sweet...calling all coders, help out!

[teo]

Wow, I didnt expect this much blind negativity so soon? especially when most of you dont know what your talking about?

I may not even *like* microsoft but let me point out a lighter side if I may.

On of the biggest ever fallings of the Amiga, and indeed every other computer platform is lack of useful, industry standard, quality productivity software. If Microsoft have now noticed the AmigaDE, it may lead to them porting IE to start with, Office? I think so, and that in iteslf is one hell of a step forward! When companies understand that Microsoft see value not only the AmigaDE, but how it can benifit the bottom line via platform independence at native CPU speeds, what other world class companies are going to start considering the opprtunity? I believe we could see lightwave make a return, and photoshop in the pipe line, not to mention a few hundred more popular titles on the way.

[teo]

RE: the idiotic reply to my previous post,

Do your research, MacOS has IE and office already, hello! M$ do port their software to other platforms. In the personal computer realm, M$ dont make much money off Windows, but they make a $#@!load off office so they are willing to spread it around without the OS.

> Microsoft are not in the industry standard quality software buisness
MS office, hello! yes its bloatware but its the industry standard, IE is once again the industry standard web broweser, hello! QED. not great quality but as you see later in my post, that is beside the point.

>NOT SPENDING it on porting your flagship titles for PDA's
yes they do,(here it comes) HELLO!, i dont like it but im just illistrating that your a half-wit, do some research idiot.

However i wasnt implying that MS software is in general what we want, perhaps IE would be good as it will give us standards, but mozilla is also a fantastic alternative (when they fix a few css glitches) its the adobe, newtek and other world class software producers that im interested in. MS can be used by us to unwittingly generate a huge amount of interest in Amiga and Amiga DE. btw, you people can be so short sighted. Who says its about sitting back and letting bill ruin our platform, how about we use him for our purposes >:-)

ps, im no MS supporter, i imagine i dispise them more then most of you, but im not going to be blinded by ignorance as most of you people seems to be doing. At least if i know what im talking about by keeping an open mind, i will know how to fight them all the better.

[teo]

Ive just had four wisdom teeth out an hour ago so excuse me if i come accross as a little groggy.

JetRacer, you have the term industry standard and standards wrong. Standards relate to globally accepted formats, interfaces, protocols etc etc. An industry standard refers to a product that is the most widely accepted and used package in it genre. So may point still stands, Microsofts Office is the industry standard, ie in the industry standard broser etc etc. Yes the make their oun standards, but the are the industry standards.

eg, Adobe photoshop is the insustry standard image manipulation packed, but it uses its own standards.

And Hello! regarding windows not making all the money. Go do some research, first of all, i did menion at im refering to the consumern level only, where they DO get way more revenue from office and other software titles. Its a fact.