RE: [xml-dev] [OT] "Blackbird" not "Blackberry" Re: [xml-dev] WSIO vs. Semantic Web- Setting the Record Straight

> >Microsoft tried to go up against the Web once and lost. You can argue
> >that it was because the other big companies like Sun etc. bet on the
Web
> >while Microsoft bet on BlackBerry.
> 
> "Blackbird" was a (horribly misguided, in 20:20 hindsight) Microsoft
> project to define an HTML-like "web" page formatting language with
> scripting capabilities.

Although, the success of Flash should show that "proprietary web-page
authoring language" is not a completely misguided idea.  Not that I
think people should be doing this; just pointing out that such efforts
are not defacto doomed to failure.