Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Given that OPEC might tie its trading to the Euro, I don't think it's just
computing that's in jeopardy. The American economy (that to which MS is
tied, i.e. MS needs the Government, while the Government needs MS) might be
on the brink of something...
Also housing prices are potentially on the brink of a precipitous fall.
If the Fed lowers interest, housing begins its inflationary trend. If
he raises it, house sales stagnate, and floating rate mortgages take
money from the consumer.
OTOH, GNU/Linux is not directly ties to these
situations and the changing tides must be global in oder to shake the status
quo of Open Source. But I digress...
Well, you digress not to much. It is very much tied together.
MS did say they were investing a lot this year (intentional repeat) and they
collapsed 11% the day they said it. Anything beyond this fall (another 7ish
per cent, roughly) indicates that the outlook /continues/ to exacerbate.
They've been investing in new technologies for over a decade now and it
has yet to bear fruit.
From what I have read, .NET was hyped up by the media; very unjustifiably so.
I can find the reference if you wish. Also think of the Origami which was
recently described as "disastrous". When it first came out, the media was so
filled with excitement. You could think you had witness the Second Coming. I
have no doubt in my mind. The Press known Microsoft and Microsoft's
Marketing Department has an extensive, valuable phonebook.
I think people focused too much on its "Internet" capabilities and
mainly think of ASP.NET as the whole thing. The fascinating thing for
me as a developer is how much .NET unlocked the keys to the candy store
and allows us to do stuff like Remoting, real multithreading (ever try
that with VB6...I did...arg), multiple inheritence and so on without all
the boilerplate of visual c++ (I never had a problem with the vc itself,
it was just all that interface code that was generated when programming
COM).
Ask some folks (trolls) in this group who work in the .NET framework. PHP and
Open Source are crushing them. That's why they are here: to subvert adoption
and vent anger.
.NET is on the way...I think it will have a future, but only because
more and more Linux distroes seem to be picking it up! (As in mono,
which is truly OSS -- unlike java).
...Despite the excessive investment in advertising, one must add. There is a
lot of artificial buzz being created. People get more excited once their
surroundings heat up. It's all an illusion. It is important for Microsoft to
get people on the wagon of digital rights management and restrictions, which
would essentially immobilise all users and make portability tools like
OpenOffice illegal.
It needs to look important to keep people from divesting. But that
game ran out of gas...
All they can do is play dirty.
Lack of talent usually results in that behavior...but what can you
say...what would you do in their position.
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