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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."

17 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. FP by HuibertAlblas · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First POst. Had to try this

    1. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Damn, i was almost there.

  2. First toast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I mean...first ghost!

  3. Soooo Close! by GeekZilla · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What has my life come to that I measure success by whether or not I make the First Post? :)

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    Veritas patesco per quaestio questio. Truth is revealed through questions.
  4. Steps to get your story posted... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Quote paragraph 1 of linked article.
    2. Quote paragraph 4 of linked article.
    3. Wait a few hours...
    4. Profit!!! (aka success)

  5. Soviet sad man is saying: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i am sad that First POst. Had to try this :*(.

  6. WARNING: EKROUT IS A KNOWN TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    DO NOT mod up ekrout's posts!

  7. ekrout by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are so full of shit, and you know it. Go find a new account to troll under.

  8. Soviet sad man says: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am sad that it will not be missed :*(.

  9. My opinion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The thing about Trent Lott is that he did not apologize for the right thing!

  10. Ah, another good SLaPing by kfg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (Slashdot Lexical Patrol)

    This addendum may interest members:

    "Usage Note: The traditional rule states that the whole comprises the parts and the parts compose the whole. In strict usage: The Union comprises 50 states. Fifty states compose (or constitute or make up) the Union. Even though careful writers often maintain this distinction, comprise is increasingly used in place of compose, especially in the passive: The Union is comprised of 50 states. Our surveys show that opposition to this usage is abating. In the 1960s, 53 percent of the Usage Panel found this usage unacceptable; in 1996, only 35 percent objected."

    I guess that means if you say something is "comprised of" 14 elements you're 35% incorrect? Only 4.9 of the elements are actually "comprised of" and the remaining 9.1 are composed of.

    Can't the editors get anything right?

    KFG

  11. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    trolls moderate crack-smoking moderators!

  12. Soviet sad man is saying: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i am sad that trolls moderate crack-smoking moderators :*( !

  13. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Jugalator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... hailstorms make YOU vanish!

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    Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
  14. Soviet sad man is saying: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i am sad that to sound like the 10yo dicks that post here "Mod this down, cause it's a troll" but seriously :*(.

  15. Re:Obviously afraid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    MS was obviously afraid the hailstorm would damage the bountiful crops in their enterprise garden.

    Oooohhh man, that was bad.

    So I will have to hit you now.

    FORCE FRYING PAN!!!

    WHAP!!! :: Bad joke artist is hit into the market garden compost heap, which explodes into flame ::

    This has been another Drive By Panning by Darth Turbogeek

  16. ***ATTENTION*** by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    All messages replying to parent post that contain insulting remarks about Eric Krout were posted from the same IP address. It's just one hateful person trying to pass himself off as many.

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