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.

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Gates tries to explain wet spot on crotch

[Anonymous Coward]

clean as the driven shit. FP CLOT, what what

FP ?

[Anonymous Coward]

flibit prorti

Re:CLiT 0wnZ this FP

[Anonymous Coward]

what are you doing you ignorant fuckbag? the CLOT are the CLIT once we've posted twice in 24 hours.

Mono progress continues

[Anonymous Coward]

Mono embedded in Gnumeric, running a web server and then an ASP.NET web page that allows people to modify
gnumeric values from ASP.

O'Reilly Mono Presentation

Re:CLiT 0wnZ this FP

[Anonymous Coward]

i'll prove my point thusly:

The CLOT is an abomination.

say that again, cowboy.

not today you don't.

CLOT == CLIT in exile

OS Report Card

[MarvinMouse]

Linux: B
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Win 98: D
Win 2000: C
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Win XP: C+
OS/2 Warp: B-
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DOS: C-
MAC OS X: A-

Any others? Any changes you think are needed? I am willing to accept any modifications. (This isn't flamebait, just encouraging conversation on report cards.)

Re:You are mistaken:

[Anonymous Coward]

That clears things up for me, thanks.

Welcome to Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

You know the thread can't be off to a good start when the submitter uses phrases like:

"Summary: Microsoft got too excited about locking in users via Hailstorm and botched the overall .NET message."

Then, the /. moderator who posted the story shows his similar level of objectiveness with the following tidbit:

"It isn't clear if Microsoft is talking about something happening beyond their control, or if they're boasting about ending it."

Slashdot regularly covers interesting topics. It's just too bad that there are basically no objective views anywhere within the process, from submission to posting to comments.

I have noticed recently, however, that a large number of those posting comments on stories such as this one are starting to become more and more objective in their posts. This is a good thing. Perhaps more of the Slashdot crowd have graduated from college and got out into the real world.

Perhaps one day that same objectivity will work its way back towards the /. staff and submitters.

Here's a hint to those whose primary email address still ends in .edu: Academia != Real World. Elitist academic idealist zealotry doesn't work in the real world. The sooner you take off your supposedly-enlightened-but-in-actuality-extremely- narrow-perspective zealot hat and put on your seen-both-sides-learned-the-ideal-experienced-the- reality pragmatist hat the better chance you'll have at succeeding in life.

Yeah, this was basically off-topic. Yeah, it's basically flamebait. No, I don't care. Most Slashdotters lack perspective but don't know it (that's the funny thing about perspective - you don't realize how much you lack until after you have gained more!) and need reminding from time to time. :)

Re:Open computing may end, somewhere

[pohl]

Shame this post was moderated as 'off topic'. Did the moderator read the topic?