Bill says: Microsoft have always been fully committed to Open Source. Why, when our innovative engineers developed c# we published the full specs for C#, it is the world's most important programming language since our first language, Visual Basic. There are also numerous open source C# projects in the .NET world, as you can see from this list: http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=32423 Microsoft also has its head in the clouds, we will soon be announcing the sky* product series, including Skydrive for personal data storage. Microsoft SkyFood anyone?
=K= On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:34:34 +1200, "Matt Vickers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nice thought ... but it'll never happen. Microsoft has NEVER > incorporated any open source toolkits or libraries into their products > (I'm happy to be proven wrong on this point): in fact, it seems that > Microsoft is forced to develop a half-assed proprietary alternative to > any mature open source technology or freely licensed technology rather > than use it. This even extends to languages: J++ vs. Java, C++ vs. C# > ... Microsoft suffers from a terminal case of Not Invented Here > syndrome. > > A recent example? Microsoft announced Velocity in June, a "distributed > in-memory application cache platform for developing scalable, available, > and high-performance applications" ... yep, it's Memcached. > > The only way IE will end up using WebKit is if: > a) They buy it (unlikely) > b) They redevelop it (but then it won't be WebKit, will it?) > > M. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Philip Arndt > Sent: Sunday, 7 September 2008 11:00 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: [phpug] Re: [OT] Google releases a new web browser > > > Rather than that.. it'd be great if Microsoft just adopted WebKit or > something rather than sticking with Trident. > > On 7/09/2008, at 10:58 PM, Don Gould wrote: > >> >> dw wrote: >>> thinks its only the firefox users who try out another browser - ie >>> users will stick with what they got. >> >> Yes I can't help thinking that we need to start thinking up some >> more UI >> features to get IE users to make the move. >> >> Cheers Don >> >> > > > > > > Scanned by Bizo Email Filter > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
