Old news, what are your thoughts?

Posted by: Mike Wright on February 05, 1998 at 15:28:46
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Paramount Opens Star Trek Site To All

Bowing to demands from Star Trek fans around the world,
Paramount Digital Entertainment has decided to open the
official Star Trek Web site Star Trek: Continuum to all
Internet users, rather than continuing its policy of making the
site available exclusively to members of The Microsoft
Network. As part of its revised plans, PDE has dumped
Microsoft as its technology partner and charter sponsor,
instead teaming up with technology giant IBM.

"IBM intends to enhance Star Trek: Continuum by making
this already successful entertainment Web site available to
fans on a global basis," said Bruce M. Polichar, vice
president of entertainment for IBM Global
Telecommunications and Media Industries. "Star Trek fans
spoke, and we listened," added David Wertheimer,
president of PDE.

Although Continuum will eventually be fully available to all
Internet users, PDE has said the process will take several
months to complete.
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This makes some sense, I didn't know Paramount had dropped MSN entirely, and gone to IBM... I personally think this is a much bigger victory for everyone, I'm sure it bruised Bill Gate's ego a bit. (That is to say if that pie in the face didn't remove enough of it)

But it's going to take several months to make it completely available to the public... That would explain why most of it is still closed.