Today, OSNews features an interview with Zac Woodall, software design Engineer at Office Data and Developer Services at Microsoft Corporation. Zac, who is also a frequent OSNews reader, talks about the new Office, .NET, WindowsXP, NTFS and how it compares to BFS filesystem, the GPL & open source movement and much more.
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The technology behind REBOL has looked very promising for long. The syntax for REBOL is really simple once you get to know it (I've looked into it a bit).
The problem with REBOL is that doesn't have the same backings as .NET which has got alot of cash AND will be incorporated with and OS that totally dominates the desktop market.
I'm afraid MS is winning in the commercial market once again without even introducing anything new, just putting together old concepts and forcing it to the market with money and marketing.
The technology behind REBOL has looked very promising for long. The syntax for REBOL is really simple once you get to know it (I've looked into it a bit).
You can try out REBOL here - http://www.rebol.com/download.html
The problem with REBOL is that doesn't have the same backings as .NET which has got alot of cash AND will be incorporated with and OS that totally dominates the desktop market.
I'm afraid MS is winning in the commercial market once again without even introducing anything new, just putting together old concepts and forcing it to the market with money and marketing.