Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 20th Feb 2002 18:45 UTC
A lot of people have trouble understanding what .NET really is and what its goals are. Mostly because Microsoft has done a good job of confusing everybody using terms that are not self-explanatory or with terms that mean more that one thing. This editorial will present my thoughts on .NET, what it really is, what its motivations and goals are, and why it is the next "big thing." Should we embrace it or fear it? Both, I daresay.
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linux_baby wrote: "What? That is absolute crap, and neither you nor anybody else on this planet knows for sure that .net will succeed. For all its success, it won't be the first time MS failed in a big project. Presenting .net as a fait accompli is putting the cart before the horse, and with editorials like this, any person with half-a-brain will loose confidence in anything you write."
The fact of the matter is, Microsoft is putting EVERYTHING, all of its poker chips, into the .NET poker hand. If .NET does not succeed, Microsoft will not succeed, because everything produced by Microsoft will be running on .NET.
Before you know it, .NET will be as obiquitous and trivial as operating systems are becoming, as TCP/IP is now. Something else will come along that will be much more important, perhaps AI or something greater, which will be the next big challenge.
It's not so much a matter of "winning" as it is progressing and keeping ahead of the curve, a matter of surviving and setting standards so that society can move on to the next level in an ever-changing, more demanding marketplace for technology.
If Microsoft stuck to just making operating systems and Office, they would not be very forward-thinking now would they?