Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Mar 2008 17:52 UTC, submitted by WillM
"Microsoft today announced its first collaboration with the open source Eclipse Foundation by committing provide engineering support to allow the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit use Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation. The move aims to make it easier for Java developers to write applications that look and feel like native Windows Vista, according to Microsoft."
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Having tried for several years, and failed, to make anything worthwhile come out of WPF,
Microsoft PR execs decide to offer it to their main competitors in the hope that they too will be sucked into the massive black holes of failure that always seem to surround managed technologies from Microsoft.
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