>The ONLY person that could replace Balmer and reinstate VFP is Eric Rudder. But even if he were to replace Balmner, VFP is COM-based. It's old technology and being replaced. No way a change at the top will make a difference.

I really don't know what COM based means? Java Applets behave as COM. DOM is COM - and it's not dying. I've even heard there are multithreaded concurrent tasking DOM objects. What's a COM?

That no-mas COM based ruse is part of the Microsoft Strategic mumbo jumbo - there are a lot of COM based - technologies as well as layered technologies doing perfectly well. Low iodine nerd wanna-bees with pocket protectors say COM - but most of them don't know what it means.

IMO: COM is just another way of saying "layered". Win 7 is still using those old OCX progress bars and list views - right? Are those COM, or are they layers.

Rudder at the helm would not be enough - the engineers are gone - Some of them are writing CLRs for New Deli Boiler Platers - others are doing media. Microsoft traded her engineers for marketing and acquisition reps.

They should "open source" it (V-9). Microsoft doesn't have the talent pool they used to. They build X-Boxes and what was that cr*ppy iTune ripoff called - Google turned them down, Yahoo turned them down. MS is just bad joo-joo - nobody wants get on board with them. They're withering on the vine - suckling off the off shore off the rack service shtick until it runs dry. Microsoft is no longer an innovator - they are a pool of game show hosts and politicians.

Well the tie you have looks good - and you do to Craig! - but I couldn't help but notice - in one day - I saw 20 TV talking heads, including Robert Gibbs - all - wearing green ties and eggshell shirts! Clones with different masks on.

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>I don't think she'll win, but then, I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.
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>That's an old picture and even an older tie.
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>>Rarely do I meet an engineer who speaks in such self assured absolutes! I tip my hat sir!
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>>My old HQ was in Park City Utah - speaking of absolutes. A women was walking a trail using her "Palm" (3G) and Google maps to navigate her nightly "regularity" stroll, and was struck (or almost struck) by a car because the map was out of date. She's now suing Google for her misdirection. On a side note - the shock of seeing the car careening towards her went a long way in relieving her "regularity" issues. :)
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>>Love your tie - have you noticed all the TV MC's are wearing some kind of off-lime-green ties with eggshell lavender tent shirts
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>>>>When Steve Linux=AL KADA" Balmer gets the boot - understanding that everything MSFT has marketed since he took the helm makes the Titanic look like a successful crossing, what are the odds that MS will go back to it's roots and hopeful return to manufacturing Fox Pro.