>Of course, that may be the goal. Whether it happens or not is a yet to be seen. Personally (as in, I'm just a grunt at Microsoft just payin' the bills), I don't see why AOL, or possiblySun can't pull of the same thing. I see responses from both of those companies that could be a threat to Microsoft's Evil Plans(tm). To think that Microsoft can monopolize the internet personal data model is kind of silly to me. We simply invented the mousetrap, it doesn't mean someone can't come up with a better one.
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>(For our non-American UT members, it is a common phrase saying, "if you invent a better mousetrap, the world will beat path to your door.")

Geeze, and I always thought it was:

"if you invent a better mousetrap, lawyers will beat a path to your door serving patent infringement suits."