On 2/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Kegel</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:dank@kegel.com">dank@kegel.com</a>&gt; 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, &quot;Windows Everywhere&quot; offers a kind<br>of &quot;magic dust&quot; 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Windows programs will run under Unix<br>through an emulator.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Wings&quot; 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.&nbsp; Any architecture, not any OS.&nbsp; Not sure, hard to say.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; (Which, back then they had quite a few more.)
<br><br>-Brian<br></div><br></div>