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The Vanishing HailStorm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the weather-patterns-disappating dept.

ElitusPrime writes ".NET My Services, Microsoft Corp's high-profile set of XML web services postponed eight months ago, seems to have dropped off the company's 2003 roadmap. .NET My Services, once codenamed Hailstorm, was to comprise 14 services including an electronic online address book and voice mail inbox and was once trumpeted as the vanguard of a .NET web services revolution by the company."

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  1. The downfall begins by orKiD · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hopefully palladium (sp?) will be next!

  2. It's all in the name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    See, they code-named it Hailstorm so those who thought about it knew this would happen all along.. it can be on the way down but then be gone or have changed in to something entirely different by the time it arrives.

    Microsoft using clever names, well I'll be. Maybe I'm reading too much in to this though, it is late..

  3. So by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What you're saying is .NET is actually .NOT?

    1. Re:So by Saint+Fnordius · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, it's .mac

  4. Cool. That means I should be able to get . . . by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    .NET "My Bob" any day now.

    KFG

  5. Re:Dirty Linux Hippies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...my socialolgy doctorate...know it's results. It's title was "Personal hygene of the slashdot crowd"...several trates...

    *poor self esteeme
    *chronic morbid obesecity
    *non existant personal hygene

    Huh. Don't forget *poor grammar/spelling skills

  6. Reliable sources report that.... by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 2, Funny

    .... that they just cancelled this scheme because Microsoft has recieved a $50 billion contract from the Bush administration for a much improved system. The scheme involves a sensor, in the form of a spike, that will be implanted into the skull of all American schoolchildren from the age of 6 with a pneumatic nail gun. The 6 cm long probe extends into the inner brain and links the human mind to the internet over a SSL connection. According to a spokesman of the Total Information Awareness Office This new aera of cooperation between Microsoft and IAO will greatly enhance the effectiveness of TIAS (Total Information Awareness System) and revolutionize the ability of the US govt to fight domestic US terrorism. Using the system to fight international terrorism might prove difficutl though not impossible since all vistors to the USA will be required to be implanted in customs and it might also be possible to make economic or military aid contingent upon the complete implanting of citizenry of nations who wish to recieve such economic/military incentives, direct military invention migh also be an option when dealing with "rougue states". Microsoft spokesmen on the other hand have been reluctant to comment on allegations by internet news site/discussion forum www.Slashdot.org that this is just another step in the corporations ultimate quest to poke its nose into the private thougts of all humankind with its evil hardware/software and thereby achieve world domination.

    If you havent noticed by now I will be kind and tell you, That was a sarcastic rant!

    ... Karma to burn

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