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> Forwards beamed above.......
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> Author: Charles Forsythe
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> HIGHER SOURCE RAISES STAKES IN INTERNET INDUSTRY
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> REDMOND -- Microsoft Corporation has announced plans to acquire the
> Website and Internet development corporation Higher Source for an
> undisclosed fee. "Higher Source has proven its commitment to strange
> mind-control cults and UFO religions," said Microsoft spokeswoman,
> Anita
> Klue,"Their willingness to kill themselves for the sake of their
> technology is the kind of dynamic that Microsoft wants to promote."
> 
> In conjunction with the acquisition, Microsoft announced a new program
> called "Active Cult 97", which is expected to be in place by late
> 1998.
> Active Cult aims to make the use of Microsoft technology more of a
> religion-driven decision as opposed to a technology-driven decision.
> "This isn't expected to be a big change for Microsoft's customer
> base,"
> explained Ms. Klue.  Details of Active Cult were not disclosed, but it
> was
> suggested that instead of crashing with the infamous "blue screen of
> death" or "General Protection Fault", Microsoft's operating systems
> would
> merely display the message "Windows died for your sins."
> 
> Mike S. Brown, who writes about the industry in his PC Weak column
> "M.S.
> Brown Knows" responded enthusiastically to the announcement. "This
> really
> raises the stakes for Internet development.  IBM may be content to
> kill
> its own products, like OS/2, but Microsoft is willing to kill its own
> developers and maybe even some customers.  That's the kind of bold
> difference that will make UNIX, OS/2 and the Mac completely irrelevant
> by
> the end of 1996!"  When is was pointed out that 1996 was already over,
> Mr.
> Brown retorted,"No it's not!  If it was, then Microsoft would be
> behind
> schedule on Windows 97 -- which it isn't."
> 
> An IBM employee, who asked to remain anonymous due to the fact that
> the
> whole issue was "extremely silly," said that "IBM is committed to the
> future of network computing and OS/2 is an important part of that
> future."
> He added that,"IBM is not interested in promoting suicide. If you want
> to
> talk about promoting suicide, talk to Microsoft's ISVs.  Can you say
> `Citrix'?"
> 
> Reaction amongst Windows users was generally positive.  Ben de Miover,
> CIO
> for a large company which recently switched its operations from the
> Apple
> Macintosh to Windows 95, explained,"Windows is really cool because you
> can
> play Quake in, like, a window and stuff."  He also cited a complete
> lack
> of Windows 95 applications for the Macintosh. "How can modern business
> function without Windows 95 applications. Y'know, like Quake?"  In
> addition, he was pretty sure that OS/2 and UNIX were "new wave bands
> from
> L.A."
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