Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft to provide virtual access to Library of Congress
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Interactive presentation software for kiosks will run on Windows Vista and
>| its Web equivalent, built using Microsoft Silverlight. The project will also
>| use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web content management software.
> `----
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/10/Microsoft-to-provide-virtual-access-to-Library-of-Congress_1.html
>
> "[Vista's] Web equivalent," eh?
>
> Same utter BS in the British Library and National Archives. They try to lock
> national assets to the existence of Microsoft. And who's the head of National
> Archives? A Microsoft executive. Corruption does not get any deeper (yet
> shallow for an outsider to see).
>
I wonder who the Microsoft guy is in the Library of Congress. Further,
I wonder if he or she knows his/her British Library counterpart. This
stinks of corruption.
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