Still, its a scarey prospect condisering the investment so many companies 
world wide have made !

Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:55:03 +1300
Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] dr. dobbs on dot net

> Win 95 was suppose to be "full 32" when it came out - it wasn't but the
> follow on versions were ...
> 
> Regards
> Paul McKenzie
> SMSS Ltd.
> Wellington
> New Zealand
> 
> 
> 
> Wilkin, Kurt wrote:
> 
> >http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9211/ddj050201dnn/
> >
> >
> >"So, with the announcements they have made last year, Microsoft has
> >indicated that Longhorn will not be the great .NET innovation that we
> >were lead to believe it was from PDC 2003. This indicates to me that
> >Microsoft is losing confidence in .NET. When I see the beta of
> Longhorn
> >(due later this year), I will examine it carefully to see how much of
> it
> >is implemented with .NET. I suspect very little will be. Here are some
> >clues to look for: If Longhorn does not implement the shell, or will
> not
> >allow you to extend the shell with .NET, then Microsoft has clearly
> lost
> >their confidence. If Longhorn does not implement any services in .NET,
> >then they will indicate (as I do) that .NET is not the right
> technology
> >for running under the privileges of the LOCALSYSTEM account.
> >
> >
> >Cheers, Kurt.
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