>The technology in question is not Web Services, or ASP.NET, or XAML, or anything else; it is an object oriented replacement for Win32 that will help the computing industry move to 64 bit. > >This is a huge undertaking, and as I have said, it is not "there". I don't expect it to be for a another five years. > >How that fact justifies any of the FUD in the article in question is beyond me.
I have been in the code writing business for long enough to have seen more than a few things come and go and the marketing hype for all of it is more or less the same.
I think your statement that it is not "there" yet and don't expect it to be for another five years is probably one of the points he is shooting for. Five years Mike? That is a very long time by which time .Net will have been out for about 7 or 8 years. At the speed at which things change in the IT world this is a long time.
Secondly, what I got from that article is that the next OS from MS will have much less to do with .Net than was apparently orginally envisioned. His point here is that perhaps this is itself a warning sign.
I dont know the future any more than the next guy and I dont know this guys background either. But he makes a few points which are interesting. They open a discussion, raise a few questions.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.
