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Gates Tries to Explain .Net
AdamBa writes "Speaking to financial analysts and reporters, Bill Gates admitted that .NET hadn't caught on as quickly
as he had hoped. The headline ('Gates admits .NET a "misstep"') is a bit misleading; he doesn't think all of .NET was a misstep, just the My Services part (aka Hailstorm). He also said that labelling the current generation of enterprise products as .NET might have been 'premature.' Summary: Microsoft got too excited about locking in users via Hailstorm and botched the overall .NET message." There's also a Reuters report and a NYTimes story on the same subject, which includes the interesting line: "Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open computing," the free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal computer industry, is ending." It isn't clear if Microsoft is talking about something happening beyond their control, or if they're boasting about ending it.
When he does they become standards.
Je t'aime Stéphanie
One dollar an hour per consultant? I guess I know how much a MCSE certificate is worth nowadays. Hell, cheaper than temps, though.
"Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open computing," the free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal computer industry, is ending."
.NET right now.
uh-huh
I'm warezing
M$=0wn3r1z3d
"Wouldn't it be great if there were something exactly like the Internet, except that we owned it?"
-- Paraphrased from Clay Shirkey
I wonder how he grades the Xbox, with its horrific launch in Japan (still haven't sold through their initial 250,000 shipment), terrible software sales rate (less than 2 per console sold), and overall terrible showing at E3. He'd probably give it a 'C+', or maybe a 'C#'.
MS believed that the way to avoid the problem of .COM's going under was to name their product .NET. I mean who's ever heard of a .net going under? Or the .net bubble burst? Clearly by naming their product .net, they would avoid all the problems the .com's had.
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
Does anyone know whether Gates was wearing ruby slippers when he made the above statement?
Just say ".NYET!".
A net, by defition, is full of holes...
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But it was a case of 'pre.net.ture ejaculation'
I just got a little excited 'cause you customers are so sexy.
Lemme help clean you up...
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
How about Get A Life? Oh wait, you had a Y in the middle. My mistake.
Hmm, I thought he gave them a C#...
"From my parent's home in Wyoming, I stab at thee."
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
How about "software to connect your income to our bottom line."
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Reporter 1: What is .NET?
.NET is. You have to see it for yourself.
.NET is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Gates: No one can tell you what
Reporter 2: But I have sources telling me that
I stole this Sig
Alien Spaceship OS in 'Independence Day': F
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
Jim Allchin, one of the company's top vice presidents, acknowledged the shift in focus in the industry from personal computers to plumbing, and bemoaned the difficulty of getting Microsoft's traditional consumers to care about its new vision.
"It's hard to get sexy about protocols," he said. "It really is about plumbing and concrete and protocols."
translation: we want to come into your house and rip out your plumbing, install our private plumbing network, and you will pay us for the privelege. don't worry, we'll never shut the water off on you, because we're trustworthy--can't you damn fools see that?
I really really don't want to see my toilet have a Brown Screen of Death someday.
Table-ized A.I.
Table-ized A.I.
Perhaps the developers could dub one of the shared libraries .BUTTERFLY. Then, at least, the users of .NET would have something to chase.
(There go my karma points...)
Bruce Lane, KC7GR,
Blue Feather Technologies
Microsoft and the entertainment industry are in bed together
And they're making the ugliest kid I've ever seen
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