>From a MS talk a few months ago, a guy in the ordinance asked if Office was going to be developed in '.Net'... The MS's presenters response was something like 'Not very likely', in his opinion 'it would be at least a couple of years out if it was going to happen'... But then again, who knows what big M is planning :-)
Regards Colin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Friday, 14 November 2003 12:06 p.m. To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Delphi 8 .net win32 et al Phil You of course realise that on of the .NET Class libs will be a wrapper thru to the undlying OS API (ie win32) after all we wouldn't want to make .NET apps to portable would we Neven ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Scadden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Delphi 8 .net win32 et al > > Rubbish.. it's mostly pre-compiled anyway! > > So my thousands of lines of intricate code for modelling, 3D visualisation, etc. are going to > run as fast as on win32 are they? That I'll believe when I see it. > Games writers are jumping to .NET?? > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 > Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 > 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ ###################################################################### Attention: The information in this email and in any attachments is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient then please do not distribute, copy or use this information. Please notify us immediately by return email and then delete the message from your computer. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. ###################################################################### --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/
