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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. It will show up sooner or later by _Hellfire_ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Microsoft did this a few years ago with .NET itself. Lo and behold it suddenly appeared. When asked why it didn't come sooner, Microsoft said that it was up on the whiteboard but had to go due to timing, departmental and budget issues.

    Moral: Microsoft never kills off the technology, they just delay it until they think the time is right.

    --
    "And then I visited Wikipedia ...and the next 8 hours are a blur..."
  2. let's give MS access to all our customers! by geoff+lane · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It died because _retailers_ realised that MS would be acting as agent between the customers and themselves. This worried a lot of people, not because of security or anything, just because it locked the business model into whatever MS was prepared to provide.