• To: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: [OT] "Blackbird" not "Blackberry" Re: WSIO vs. Semantic Web- Setting the Record Straight
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:23:44 -0800
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• Thread-topic: [OT] "Blackbird" not "Blackberry" Re: WSIO vs. Semantic Web- Setting the Record Straight

> >Microsoft tried to go up against the Web once and lost. You can argue
> >that it was because the other big companies like Sun etc. bet on the
Web
> >while Microsoft bet on BlackBerry.
> 
> "Blackbird" was a (horribly misguided, in 20:20 hindsight) Microsoft
> project to define an HTML-like "web" page formatting language with
> scripting capabilities.

Although, the success of Flash should show that "proprietary web-page
authoring language" is not a completely misguided idea.  Not that I
think people should be doing this; just pointing out that such efforts
are not defacto doomed to failure.

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