On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Christopher E. Stefan wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jan 1996 alexy@alpha.c2.org wrote:

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MCI and Microsoft will now be building networks together, MCI ditching Netscape and starting to sell Microsoft network access tools & pushing MSN...

Interesting considering: MCI and News Corp. have an agreement to jointly develop/promote InternetMCI and Delphi. And UUNET and Microsoft have an agreement to provide Internet access/MSN dialup.

Last paragraph of article read: " MCI's move is a step away from its relationship with News Corp,, whose Delphi on-line service, with 200,000 customers, is about a quarter the size of Microsoft's MSN." Bye Bye, Delphi. It is a wonder to me that Microsoft is using UUNET for MSN dialup and MCI for, to quote the article, "Internet access and telecommunications provider". If I was with UUNET, I certainly would be upset that I get to watch modems blink while MCI gets to hyperstream.

Wonder if this sort of thing is anything like the cable/telco/media "interactive TV" alliances of a year or two ago?

Can we now get MSNBC over our MCI ISDN? Did anyone else note the MSNBC advertisement following the SuperBowl? alex