Neven MacEwan said of .NET:
> It not portable, it just is another 'spin' product that some corporate
> type IT managers will lap up because it is M$
I would like to point out that if may be that Microsoft has made a seriously
smart move by introducing .NET at this stage.
In the next decade we are going to see a shift away from a single uniform
Windows platform (x86) and onto two competing platforms, AMD64 (plus
possible Intel copy of same extensions) and IA64. If I was MS I would not
like to predict a possible winner, and more over I would not like to have to
have to build and maintain a commersial IA64 compiler product due to the
high complexity and costs involved.
So by moving internal and much external development towards .NET one of the
things that you gain is platform independence just at the time when you are
about to experience a decade of completing platforms.
If Windows had had this technology ten years ago we may still have had Alpha
based NT machines available with a full suite of applications. I'm guessing
that Microsoft has learnt from the early multi-platform days and is trying
to prevent any costs of guessing the wrong winner in the future.
Cheers, Max.
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