[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: [OT] "Blackbird" not "Blackberry" Re: WSIO vs. S
> >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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