Michael: I read the PC Week article
zdnet.com
and it's pretty much just a grabbag of rumors and innuendo on a slow news day. So Microsoft is coughing up some new Windows-only language? Oh, excuse me, that's cross-platform Windows-only language, because it will run on Windows 3.1, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows CE :-). Yawn.
Whatever Microsoft does will be hamstrung by unavoidable Windows baggage. But, as much as Microsoft wishes it otherwise, Windows isn't the main issue for Java, and Java isn't the main issue for Windows developers. Java is a language for the present and future of networked computing. Windows is a platform for the present and past of desktop computing. They overlap in time, but that's all. Windows is at the end of one bar on the historical timeline. Right above that one, Java is at the beginning of the next.
It becomes more obvious every day, doesn't it?
Regards,
--QwikSand |
