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Look What's Cooking At Microsoft Labs
stinkymountain writes "Writer John Brandon spent two days at Microsoft Research Labs in Redmond and got an inside look at some pretty
interesting projects under development, including a robotic receptionist, a new type of touch screen for people with fat fingers, and an electronic table that allows multiple people to collaborate in real time. Brandon also talks about some of these research projects on this NPR podcast."
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Blackbird was never designed to "kill the open internet as we know it", because "the open internet as we know it" did not exist when blackbird was in active development. In those days I was still doing Archie searches and trying to stick with the good guys at Mosaic rather than take the Netscape plunge.
Acceptance that HTML had become standard had nothing to do with the death of Blackbird, which, from its inception, was complimentary to HTML. Again, the "web as we know it" did not exist at all in those days.
And who says I'm angry at Microsoft for not shipping it? That's like being mad at someone for calling shell scripting "programming". It's easier for everyone involved to just let them be a dumbass.