This MSFT post from the FOOL
Any comments?
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MSFT got the desktop with Windows XP:
And the internet:
Windows .NET Server on the server, went through numerous betas. The server software, currently in a third beta, includes Microsoft's .NET Framework, an expanded middleware layer that encompasses not only its Component Object Model and a message queue, but also a Common Language Runtime (CLR) that represents the opposite of Sun's Java platform
So it takes care of alot of the middleware problems, or attempts to,and is trying to kill Sun's Java at the same time.
And the new matra becomes:
Write in any programming language you want, as long as it runs on Windows.
So programmers of any language get a full suite of products to write seamlessly for windows.....um, I mean themselves whatever they want:
To that end, Microsoft released its new C# programming language, designed as a simplified version of C++ with many of the ease-of-development features that characterized Java. It also launched the beta of J#, which uses the Java syntax to develop not for a JVM, but for the CLR. Both languages utilize a revamped integrated development environment, Visual Studio.NET, which was also in a late beta at the end of 2001. Similar to earlier versions, Visual Studio.NET is noteworthy in that all the languages that use it—C++, C#, Visual Basic and soon J#—are compiled for the CLR rather than for native Windows APIs. Several third-party language developers announced that they, too, would create Visual Studio.NET versions of their languages and tools that would run atop the CLR.
All designed for the "Common Language Runtime" which is code for Microsoft
The additional layer of abstraction offered by the .NET Framework and the CLR is expected to simplify the development of Windows applications and make it easier for apps to share components, built-in CLR and .NET Framework features, and to publish and subscribe to Web services.
Wow, and it will be easier to apply web initiatives !!! Imagine that?? As long as it's windows? Wow....
In fact, XML Web services, using SOAP and UDDI for invocation and discovery, represent the third leg in Microsoft's 2001 tripod, receiving billing equal to that of Windows XP and the .NET Framework. The company intends for Web services to not only facilitate internal company application integration, but also to serve as the foundation for a new set of for-profit services, which were announced under the code name HailStorm but which are now called .NET My Services.
No kidding. Microsoft has other "for-profit" services planned once they tie everything together under the .NET initiative and have control of the entire information flow on the planet through their fully integrated suite of desktop, server, and middleware products? Now that is surprising....
Already, Windows XP is designed to rely upon Microsoft's Passport online service to provide centralized authentication for local-area networks and for Web merchants, as the first of the HailStorm offerings.
And all you need is a passport to get these offerings that nothing else will work with in such an integrated manner? |
