Again, as someone else has commented on an earlier post, substitute US for UN, and your post reads fine.
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Both the US and the UN have their faults.
Anyway, whatever the UN decide, it won't result in the UN "running" the Internet. It might eventually result in a new body (ala WHO, WB, IMF etc.) being given authority to oversee it. That would be a good thing, IMHO.
Most customers don't want a computer, they want what a computer can do. MS won the race by realizing this
I doubt very much that MS realised this at the time. They benefited from it, sure. Another hardware manufacturer was simply another market that they could & should be compatible with...
I still wear (every day) the Seiko Automatic that my parents gave me 13 years ago: works beautifully, though I dropped it a month ago, and put a small crack in the glass. Doh!
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Again, as someone else has commented on an earlier post, substitute US for UN, and your post reads fine.
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Both the US and the UN have their faults.
Anyway, whatever the UN decide, it won't result in the UN "running" the Internet. It might eventually result in a new body (ala WHO, WB, IMF etc.) being given authority to oversee it. That would be a good thing, IMHO.
Utah is intercontinental from here, you insensitive clod!
I doubt very much that MS realised this at the time. They benefited from it, sure. Another hardware manufacturer was simply another market that they could & should be compatible with...
Innovative? Not really -- it's been done before. Lots of times.
I should hope so! After 30 minutes of cooking it would make shoe leather look soft.
I still wear (every day) the Seiko Automatic that my parents gave me 13 years ago: works beautifully, though I dropped it a month ago, and put a small crack in the glass. Doh!
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