>I think the fact that it's a distributed model is the scariest part! One of the biggest challenges of creating the new apps will be exception code for those distributed services that aren't working.
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>Perhaps you control every service and can get them all back on line if one goes down, perhaps you don't use a T1 or you have one that NEVER goes down, perhaps encoding, http, parsing and internet bandwith will always be fast enough, perhaps the interfaces to your services will never break...
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>Distributed can mean slower with more points of failure and less contol over them.
I bet MS will build a generic connection as soon as they figure how to make money with it.There was a time when drive mapped network applications had to take precautions. Now terms like single user or multi-user are rarely, if ever spoken.