[LINK] BT, MICROSOFT FORM BROADBAND ALLIANCE

[Rick Welykochy]

Michael Lean wrote:
> 
> Interesting bit of news...
> Mike
> 
> >BT, MICROSOFT FORM BROADBAND ALLIANCE
> >British Telecom and Microsoft have forged a formal strategic alliance to
> >develop more broadband Internet services, putting BT on an equal footing
> >with Microsoft's other global telecom partners (Verizon in the U.S. and KT
> >Corp. in Asia). The pact comes on the heels of two other recent deals
> >between the two companies --

>>> one focused on developing services that work
>>> across a variety of Web platforms

I'll believe when I see it. Currently, I find developing content for web sites
most painful, due to proprietary HTML (i.e. non-standard), Javascript differences,
and the problem of dealing with many bugs in IE 5.0 and 6.0. For example, there
is still a TCP/IP related bug in IE 6.0 that affects HTTP redirects. The bug was
detected back in IE 3.0 IIRC, and still has not been fixed.

cheers
rickw


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