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A couple of months ago, I wondered about Microsoft's lack of promotion for Windows 2000, noting that the company was spending more time educating users about its upcoming .NET strategy than drumming up support for the products it already had. I...
As soon as Microsoft announced its latest "Bill Bets the Company" initiative, .NET, I got a paranoid chill down my back that I always get when Microsoft announces a new paradigm. (As a wise man once observed, "You know what they say about...
While we wait for Microsoft's .NET vision to evolve, the company's Visual Studio.NET (originally Visual Studio—VS—7.0) and Office 10 betas provide some tantalizing previews of .NET technology. Visual Studio.NET includes the .NET Framework, which...
When planning their future corporate directions, leading-edge technology companies such as Microsoft have to walk a fine line between their customers' needs and their own needs. In the past, both Microsoft and its customers have benefited enormou...
Some people might see Microsoft's new C# language as a backlash against Sun Microsystems' lawsuit against Microsoft over Java. C# (pronounced "C sharp") is currently in beta, and Microsoft plans to release it initially as part of Visual Studio...
By the time you read this, Microsoft DevDays 2000 will have wrapped up. Those of you who attended saw how Microsoft is building its suite of .NET servers, such as BizTalk and Commerce 2000, around XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)...