On 2/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Kegel</b> <<a href="mailto:dank@kegel.com">dank@kegel.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
--- snip ---<br>To lure Independent Software Vendors, "Windows Everywhere" offers a kind<br>of "magic dust" that will end their cross-platform support problems.<br>Microsoft claims that Windows programs will run on any computer with
<br>nothing but a simple recompile. Windows programs will run under Unix<br>through an emulator. "Wings" will let you recompile into a native<br>Macintosh application.<br>--- snip ---</blockquote><div><br>This could also be referring to the widespread belief at the time that NT would run on any platform. Any architecture, not any OS. Not sure, hard to say. I recall a lot of smoke and mirrors back then because MS didn't want to fully take the wraps off Windows 95 and were trying to misdirect competitors. (Which, back then they had quite a few more.)
<br><br>-Brian<br></div><br></div>