Re: Steve Ballmer is cracking up

[Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:40:01AM -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
> I spent the last couple of days at the Infoworld CTO forum,
> which by the way is a pretty good event, I recommend it; 
> anyhow, the closing keynote was from Steve Ballmer, and 
> in between extolling the virtues of XP and Hailstorm and 
> so on, he hollered (but then he always hollers) "XML IS
> BIGGER THAN THE GUI!  BIGGER THAN THE PC!  BIGGER THAN 
> THE INTERNET! ... .NET IS JUST A NAME FOR ALL THE THINGS
> WE HAVE TO DO TO PARTICIPATE IN THE XML REVOLUTION!"
> 
> Somebody get that man a valium.  Or send him to a 2-day
> WG meeting.  Or something.  -Tim

  I suggest the following prescription: 
    - reading the archives of the XML protocol list
    - providing a 2 pages summary
It would actually be an useful participation...

Joke aside Microsoft is participating actively in this forum,
but the summary would still be interesting.

Daniel

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