Web services standards and the emergence of service-oriented architectures are showing us the direction the Internet needs to move in, according to the Microsoft chairman.
Web services standards and the emergence of service-oriented architectures are showing us the direction the Internet needs to move in, according to the Microsoft chairman.
Micrsoft and standards? When did they ever care about that?
as long as they can licence them out, plenty
Cheaper when you keep an open mind, huh?
Does that open mind include the insane dance of the arcane to try and stop malware and viruses from infecting a system and causing massive economic damage if not caught in time?
Nothing to see here. Move along. Consider the source; Ziff Davis. If you are not aware of the Ziff Davis format for articles, look for 2 things in this one;
1. Sensationalistic spin intended to raise either anger, confuse/frustrate, or ‘me too’ emotional reactions.
2. Few details or interesting insights; mostly an opinion piece with much of the context cut out to increase the impact of item #1 above.
These traits are true of the vast majority of articles that appear in Ziff Davis publications, with very few exceptions.
If you don’t have this experience yet, go and take a look at other Ziff Davis articles and judge for yourself. True, they will occasionally have a good article. The bad to good ratio does not justify the time spent finding them, though.
Bill is as optimistic as ever. Offering us a future with all sorts of useless garbage in it. Always in the future, always exciting and always innovative.
I personally can’t wait for the slump in progress. Cars became non-inovative at some point when will computers do so? When will be really productive rather than just busy.
I would be optimistic too, when I have as much money as he has.
I personally can’t wait for the slump in progress. Cars became non-inovative at some point when will computers do so? When will be really productive rather than just busy.
Think about this;
You have 2 electric shavers. The first one costs $50 and the second one costs $150. The difference between the two is that…
* The $50 one is a normal to good shaver that has a bunch of features and can be snapped on for use instantly — even includes lubrication gell to soothe your face and can be used in the shower. It’s small and holds a charge for about 2 weeks.
* The $150 one doesn’t look like a shaver, is complex, uncomfortable but not painful to use, and takes 3 hours to use yet results in a shave that lasts 5 years. In 5 years, it may not work again.
Which shaver company do you think will be more likely to stay in business?
BTW: Cars are constantly being marketed as new and innovative. The one that aren’t don’t get bought unless it is for price.
Micrsoft and standards? When did they ever care about that?
Of course it’s always funny in a wicked peculiar and sick :] way to see/read B.G. talking about [web] standards conformance, but the answer to the above has most probably something to do with profit
Nothing more. Everything B.G. or S.B. ever say or do has to do with profit. If standards compliance if fashionable, they say they’ll do it, if voip is trendy, they will buy themselves into it, etc. Nothing new under the Sun [i.e. the celestial body that gives us light and heat 
].
What a crap article, don’t bother reading it. What’s he talking about? Improving lower-level protocols? (little need for that, I think). Moving software from home PC’s to server-side apps? (A good idea for many people IMHO, but not for everyone, and only as long as that server-side is a variety of systems, maintained by many different parties). Improving middleware (P2P apps and such)? Improving search engine technology? The article doesn’t make clear what exactly. Oh, and then this quote:
“So in an ecommerce application, you don’t have to insist that the buyer and seller have a common implementation [but] simply that they abide by the same [Web services] standards.”
I couldn’t agree more, but you know what? There’s already plenty standards around to do whatever you want. Just pick the right ones to support. And hint to mr. Gates: please look at yourself first. Deeds say more than words.
As for the headline: it’s true. The original idea with the internet was, that it allowed any individual to publish stuff to the entire world. One big flaw however: ‘the individual’ reads as: ‘a particular server’.
When you grab some file off the internet, what you really grab is: file named ABC from server XYZ. Which means that if file ABC is very popular, server XYZ gets buried with requests. This problem grows with the number of users on the ‘net.
Now mirror servers, P2P file sharing, and distribution of big downloads on CD/DVD all help to reduce this problem, but it’s all bolted on.
What you really want when you grab a file off the internet, is: file ABC, created by ‘entity’ XYZ. With ‘entity’ being some individual, company, or other named source. The actual creator may even be unknown.
You don’t care what server supplies it to you, or what route it took from original source to your machine. The point is that any file that identifies as ‘coming from XYZ’ is a file created by same creator.
What you need for this, is PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) to digitally sign files, transparent mirroring/caching of files etc. Decoupling the creator from physical location/IP address/properties of a source server. Think Freenet, but then in a low-level protocol that is as efficient, ubiquitous, fast and easy to use as http is today. And something similar for chat and/or messaging alongside it. Grab a file from entity XYZ, retrieving it from a server nearby, browse what more that same entity has to offer, chat with same entity while you’re grabbing files, possibly without knowing exactly who that entity is, or where it’s physically located.
Make that universal, efficient, transparant and easy, and the internet makes another big step forward. </wet dream>
What a crap article, don’t bother reading it. What’s he talking about? Improving lower-level protocols? …
See my comments about Ziff Davis.
…until it takes proprietary protocols as a standart. Microsoft’s mission of de-commotitizing protocols is the world’s key to wealth, peace and prosperity. They are having a hard time fighting all those GPL communists who cause incompability issues.
The web can never be great when Windows Server isn’t dominating the market. I mean, how can FreeBSD serve web pages for a Windows user? They are completely different platforms and the fact that they DO work together is an unsolved mystery.
And how are these Firefox people expecting to view IE-enhanced websites? IE is the standart, everything else doesn’t comply with it.
I’m not serious, just being sarcastic.
He also predicted the rise of ‘richer’ mobile apps which would enable users to access features such as maps or e-wallets on the move.
The future he predicts is one of bloated mobile devices. We already have those brilliant devices with their bluetooth vulnerabilities.
yes bill, dont bother improving what you already have that needs improving… since that doesnt make you a bunch more money
“improve” something else that is a large cash flow…
>It has the dominant market share.
No… IE has *0* market share. (Market share is a figure gauged by sales… NOT the number of products in use) Because IE is free, it has no market share whatsoever.
It is people that propegate this myth that believe that because Apple’s (for example) market share is only 5-6% that that its install base is this low.
Most of the time if you want to attach one website to another, like for example to provide Weather Data, a comma seperated values File is more than enough, and I believe it’s even better, because (a) it works, no stupid xml-debugging and (b) it’s simple.
Gates added that companies would see that Microsoft offers a better “value equation”, if they kept “an open mind”
Yeah, you need an open mind to understand TCO.
How can Windows have a lower TCO when it costs more and Windows admins have the same salaries as their competitors?
Oh, and if you install an update on Windows Server you have to reboot *hysterically laughing* resulting in downtime?
Oh, and BTW, Windows would have a lower TCO if it didn’t include the cost of spreading the “windows has a lower TCO” myth in every Windows of Microsoft box.
IF the internet needs inprovments , for the sake of world peace and harmony Billy Boy is NOT the man to improve it!
Fix Windows first…
‘Gates added that companies would see that Microsoft offers a better “value equation”, if they kept “an open mind” ‘
Yeah, you need an open mind to understand TCO.
Note that he did not say TCO. What he said could mean anything.
As for TCO, I’ve yet to see a non-Microsoft sponsored study say Windows is the lower cost option in the long term (4+ years). Short term (2- years), it usually is if Windows is already in use…as with most any other existing product.
> IF the internet needs inprovments , for the sake of world
> peace and harmony Billy Boy is NOT the man to improve it!
Right. Gates saying the ‘Net needs improvements is like Vader saying the rebel forces need improvements to their infrastructure. They may need help, but not the kind of help they’ll get from the Empire!
If Microsoft windows has not viruses, worms and spywares and millions of windows machines are not zombies, internet would be speedier and better.
Fix windows first, Bill !!
Amen.
Sick of Bill and the legacy he has left on computing. Set technology back at least a decade with his companies crap.
Gates can say whatever now, nobody cares.
His theory of improving the internet would be to replace XML and TCP/IP with the .doc format.
all servers Windows based
mshtml on all the pages
only works with msie
controled by bill him self from microsoft head quaters
microsoft owns all the isps
new name “Microsoft World Network”
nothing is free
I would love to see a feature in Longhorn where a talking parrot with Gates’ face pops up on the desktop and generates random future predictions in the world of computing, all ideas and “what if” concepts all patented of course.
IMO he’s sounding more and more like that old Windows Talking Parrot program as the days go by.
Oh boy, it’s time for another regular monthly “revolution”. As always, MS will revolutionize the way we do <insert whatever, it does not matter really>
I think Gates needs improvement, this guy is boring!
Says it all …
The internet could be improved, as could the rest of the digital world by totally NOT using ANY M$ products. =)