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Nothing of .Net in Longhorn?
turnitover writes "We've been waiting for Longhorn before we really get on the .Net train, but should we bother at all? According to Mary Jo Foley at Microsoft Watch, Longhorn won't be based on .Net at all. Foley, who's usually right on target, calls this MS's 'dirty little secret'." From the article: "We're guessing that Microsoft will maintain that nothing has changed-that no one ever promised that the .Net Framework 2.0 would be the foundation for Longhorn. But developer types we've been chatting with seem to find this update a newsworthy revelation."
Finally some good news on /.
I find Microsoft's "not eating their own dog food" rumors to be significant. Why does the rest of the world have to eat it (literally and figuratively) and not Microsoft?
.Net hype is for them.
Because Microsoft wants you to, duh. And you must obey. I've met plenty of Microsoft drones who'll lap up anything Microsoft excretes, willingly and obediently. The
I always hestitate to take the bait of ad hominem posts.... but, you got me thinking, so I've gone back, and I've re-read my entire post.
As for the factual parts (the visit with John Connors), I stand by the accuracy of my recall of those events.
As for the interpretation of those events (which obviously are my interpretation and subject to my bias -- however much this stems from discussions with both management and technical staff that day), I stand by my interpretation as being one reasonable view (of course it looks as if your mileage actually does vary).
As for my un-ordered list of observations about .NET, if you're going to paint me completely full of shit, maybe you could enlighten us as to which of those bullets aren't believable.
And, what is "completely full of bullshit" about the speculation of and commenting on Microsoft's seemingly slow movement to their own technology?
So, I disagree with you on one point.... I don't think you'd be feeding a troll by countering my post, I think you're feeding a troll by refusing to do so.
Oh, you're a Java developer?
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