Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2001 19:44 UTC
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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I for one am glad to know that .NET will happily "farm out" the storage of perfomance critical code to third party servers on the other end of my flaky Internet connection. This is especially critical since a 40 Gig hard drive costs approximately the same amount as two months of connection charges.
Sign me up for outsourcing all of the pesky filter storage. Especially if it is going to verify that I have kept my Photoshop subscription up to date. I would hate to have to miss a payment.
The reason that Microsoft is moving away from the "waterfall of changes" model is quite simple. They are sick and tired of having to cajole us all into upgrading. A very signficant portion of Windows users are still using Windows 95. That means that Microsoft hasn't made a dime off of those folks in years. .NET allows them to charge their customers on a much more regular basis, and so Microsoft pundits are hyping .NET straight to the moon. Don't pretend that the end users want such a beast, because they don't.