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by najajomo 3379 days ago
Was mixing msOffice and iExplorer code, so the one couldn't be removed without breaking the other, one of the strategies discussed?

"The battle we are fighting is over who controls the next generation applications and system architecture, APIs and services" Shirish Nadkarni 1991

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000...

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From the article

"Bill wanted (still wants) a breakthrough in how we build rich productivity apps. He expected that the shape of that breakthrough would be to build a highly functional component that would serve as the core engine for all the applications. For a time he believed that Trident (the core engine for Internet Explorer) could become that component."