Howdy Paul   
      
    PH> On 03/26/15, Mike Luther pondered and said...   
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    ML> I don't know anything for sure, but as I've heard from a number of   
    ML> sources this may be all related to the huge push for intimate detail   
    ML> chasing for anything one does on a browser.  That plus more and more   
    ML> push toward somehow being able to be a something-   
    ML> in-the-middle for ANY   
    ML> use of ANY operating system so as to ramp    
    ML> telecommunications engineering   
      
    PH> Interesting thoughts Mike. So you think the idea will    
    PH> be to craft something   
    PH> that will let the broswer author know more about the browser user than   
    PH> ever before? And by using this 'tool' the author of it may offer more   
    PH> services to the user than was capable of ever being    
    PH> offer if IE was still in   
    PH> the frame?   
      
   Yep.  But then ask yourself, who is 'the author' and possibly more important   
   what is 'the service' ?  Then, as well as beginning to look more and more   
   forward into 'the future' postulate not only looking all that direction but   
   consider how all this really started in the whole 'public' world.   
      
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   Especially if you started looking at all this with machine language and 300   
   baud modems, watched the Window and someone pulling on the ring to interrupt   
   this or that.  Even with as beautiful a computer as a HeathKit H89, got   
   confused over what the heck a Disk Only System supposedly had to do with it   
   all.  And didn't get to 'Disturb, Feed, Poke ... Tease ' dis or dat 'animal'   
   about how any Window of the future could even stop an owl from waking you up   
   night after night as it croned 'whoo, whoo, whoo' from a branch on your tree   
   just above your window outside of your bedroom?   When you thought you were   
   sleeping sound with whom?   
      
      
    ;)   
      
      
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