Microsoft "could reshape the Internet" ("The Greatest Show on Earth," July)? I hope not. They reshaped the world of operating systems and look what good they did to it. Thanks to Microsoft, we need a 486 to efficiently edit a plain ASCII file, so we can expect to need a direct T1 connection to The Microsoft Network to send E-mail. Fortunately, Microsoft won't reshape the Internet so easily. MSN is not exactly loved by many Internet users, and it won't exactly be welcomed into the Internet community.
The trouble with Microsoft is that speed and bugs don't really affect their products' success. Windows is the best example. The same could happen with MSN.
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The Trouble with Microsoft
