The reality is far from what you may have imagined. Columbia Innovations Enterprises (CIE), a commercial arm of Columbia University, had been filling lawsuits across the country to extract royalty payments from some the generic patents the University owns.
Because it's difficult for a company to challenge the credibility of a university, most companies just settle it out of courts. IMHO, CIE's conduct is kind of sick.
C# is just one of languages in NGWS (Next Generation Windows Service). The other 3 languages to target NGWS in VisualStudio.NET 1.0 are VB, JScript, and Managed C++. C# will take java's place only because of Sun's lawsuit. That's why its design to mimic java.
IL is the intermediate language that is converted to machine code by the NGWS runtime's JIT compilers just prior to exceution. System services offered by the runtime are structured similarly to java packages. For example, there are packages like System.Data.XML, System.IO, System.Net etc. There are also packages specific to Windows, like Microsoft.Win32.
Microsoft has been quietly working on NGWS for quite a while now. You can download the preview SDK at http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/. It's quite functional and stable.
Without people like us, who read Tom's Hardware Guide everyday and rate chips by how easily they can be overclocked, computer hardware would never had advanced as fast as it had for the past 20 years. After all, someone has to support the startups that make revolutionary new products. If I read you correctly, we should all be happy with the Pentiums because wanting more is merely geekishness without purpose.
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The reality is far from what you may have imagined. Columbia Innovations Enterprises (CIE), a commercial arm of Columbia University, had been filling lawsuits across the country to extract royalty payments from some the generic patents the University owns.
Because it's difficult for a company to challenge the credibility of a university, most companies just settle it out of courts. IMHO, CIE's conduct is kind of sick.
C# is just one of languages in NGWS (Next Generation Windows Service). The other 3 languages to target NGWS in VisualStudio.NET 1.0 are VB, JScript, and Managed C++. C# will take java's place only because of Sun's lawsuit. That's why its design to mimic java.
IL is the intermediate language that is converted to machine code by the NGWS runtime's JIT compilers just prior to exceution. System services offered by the runtime are structured similarly to java packages. For example, there are packages like System.Data.XML, System.IO, System.Net etc. There are also packages specific to Windows, like Microsoft.Win32.
Microsoft has been quietly working on NGWS for quite a while now. You can download the preview SDK at http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/. It's quite functional and stable.
Without people like us, who read Tom's Hardware Guide everyday and rate chips by how easily they can be overclocked, computer hardware would never had advanced as fast as it had for the past 20 years. After all, someone has to support the startups that make revolutionary new products. If I read you correctly, we should all be happy with the Pentiums because wanting more is merely geekishness without purpose.