Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Light of Day

The founder of Go Computers is suing MS for largely killing Go's pen computing efforts. Due to the fact that the information on the internet is so sparse before the last ten years, most people wouldn't remember Go. Go was at the time a pretty promising idea in pen computing. While the technology was relatively under developed, and probably to immature, Microsoft decided to kill the technology by making a pen computing division and then spreading enough FUD and strong armed ISVs to make sure that development partners didn't do any development for Go's platform. Eventually they killed Go and then promptly closed their pen computing division. Sound familar? It should as it's exactly what they did with IE & Netscape.

Well with some many facts coming out during the MS anti-trust trial, it shouldn't be surprising that more light of day lawsuits are coming about.