Microsoft Gives Up on Hailstorm

Dephex Twin writes "According to a NYTimes article: due to lack of 3rd-party support for Microsoft's "Persona" (originally codenamed "Hailstorm"), the company has been forced to dump the project. It seems the companies didn't like having a middleman between them and the consumers. As a person worried about the future with .NET, this is a bit of a relief."

Comments

Perfect Headline

[Ilan Volow]

Hailstorm fails to put dent in market.

Re:Perfect Headline

[Paradise Pete]

puns are what people without a sense of humor do when they want to be funny

So this duck goes into a drugstore and asks the clerk for some ChapStik. The clerk asks "Will that be cash or charge?" and the duck says... "Just put it on my bill."

Hmm

[NiftyNews]

Don't worry guys, I heard from a good inside source that Operation: CodeBloatHurricane is still in steady development...

The real reason it failed...

[Guido69]

Couldn't get it to run on Apache over BSD.

nope

[telstar]

It's not that Microsoft's trajectory has necessarily passed its apex, it's that websites like slashdot focus more attention on pointing out Microsoft's missteps. Take ANY large company and put it under the microscope ... and you'll find the exact same thing.

Re:One degree of seperation?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't that mean no middle man?

MS doesn't consider themselves to be a middle man. They consider themselves to be The Man.

Re:Yay - now get Messenger outta my face

[MrPoopyPants]

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

Shit... and people say Unix is cryptic!

Re:MS is running outta juice!

[tenman]

You can hardly cast the X-Box as half-assed. While the investment hasn't rendered the return expected yet, even Hemos says " X-Box isn't dead yet - not by a long shot. ". I know that many readers concider Hemos a beta test of human cloning, but he speaks the truth this time.

While microsoft can't turn out the growth that the company has stolen from it's costomers in the past, doesn't mean that they don't have plenty of cash on hand. In this case in paticular, they are listening to the public enough to realize that not only do we not like what they are doing, they can't force us to use it, and we will not if they don't.

I too look forward to the day when Microsoft is tamed into a shrew of a company that can't afford to die, but cant afford to do anything real in the market place. That being said, it's hard to put your hand on the pulse of Microsoft's marketing engine unless your the direct recipent of it's ploys. Trust me friend. For-Hire closed source developers like MS's spoon feeding them a soft diet of Visual-This and .NET-that. I expect these developers will adopt the new versions of Microsoft because the company they work for doesn't want to deal with retraining thier development staff.

You may think you see them tossing in the towel, but what you actually see are the threads of the towel falling into the ring as they are whipping the cornors back and forth across the backs of millions of developers

</soapbox>

Canceled Persona

[Ether Trogg]

So, if Microsoft has canceled Persona, does that mean we can refer to it as Persona Non Grata ?

Ack! Stop with the rotten fruit already!

Re:For once, perhaps marketing was a good thing?

[dimator]

CBDTPA universally rejected and Hailstorm bites the dust. I have to say, today was a good day.

Not to mention no barkin' from the dog, no smog, and mama cooked the breakfast with no hog.

Re:.NET is actually pretty sweet

[wortelslaai3434]

That's the nice thing about .NET - M$ has actually embraced industry standards.

...waiting to be extended.

Re:.NET is actually pretty sweet

[dachshund]

And .NET delivers on all the promises that Sun had made of Java. (M$ has beaten them - intsead of "write once, run anywhere," .NET offers "compile once, run anywhere.")

And .NET has much wider support for quantum computers than Java. Just as soon as Microsoft gets around to implementing it, of course.

Re:.NET is actually pretty sweet

[llamalicious]

I guess that really makes it "compile once, run everywhere and nowhere at the same time"

Re:.NET is actually pretty sweet

[ph0rk]

what? evidence? we don't need no stinking evidence!