"Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[Leaving just a few random quotes, snipping lots of good and accurate
technical-historical stuff]
> Nigel Perry wrote:
>
> > > NGWS
> >
> > An older temporary name for .NET. NGWS? Never Goes Wonderfully Sucks?
> > I think somebody shot the marketing guy and replaced him, she then
> > came up with ".NET" :-)
> Next Generation Windows Services (I think), as opposed to older generations
> such as the Win32 APIs and COM.
> C# is Microsoft's attempt at a Java-killer. It isn't really all that
If I may take the liberty of speculating on the political issues, this
might be seen in light of a possible imminent breakup of
you-know-who. Might .NET be inherited by the applications part of
Microsoft, perhaps - MS could then let the OS part drift wherever it
might, and secure a new monopolized base for their applications.
This might actually be good news(?), since it could mean that we'd see
.NET implementations for lots of architectures - although poorly
documented and non-free source, of course, in order to keep tight
control. Maybe.
-kzm
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