Re: Is WebTV a puppet in the standards war?

[Doug Masson <dmasson@iquest.net>]

On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Eric M. Bennett wrote:

> A ZDNet article asks the question, "Is WebTV a puppet in the standards
> war?"  Before being bought by Microsoft, WebTV had indicated an interest in
> supporting Java and kept its support for Real Networks' streaming product
> up to date.  Now it has no interest in Java and has announced it will not
> support new technologies from Real.  More here:

No real audio, no java. Hmm, let's make an unattractive product even more
unattractive. No thanks.