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• Member since: March 22, 2006

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• Don't underestimate how great a standardized platform can be for opening up real opportunities. Go back a dozen years or so and think about the pre-win32 (Windows 95) days. Software vendors had to write all of their own drivers for specific devices and services to control them. If you had a different printer than say, HP Laserjet III, you had to make sure there were drivers written for your WordPerfect 5.1 application to run on them. Windows 95 helped change that by makeing a ton of basic "services" availible in the OS. This opened up the field for application companies to focus time/money/effort on features rather than basic communications and interop capabilities. The whole Web Services Infrastructure talk of the last several years has been driving integration forward by making the load lighter for ISV's doing this in the enterprise while waiting for hosted application support to catch up. Sure its about trust. But not trust of one company; its trust of someone other than your own local data center in your enterprise having your application and handling the transaction.
  And who better to lead in this than Microsoft? With the cultural marketshare for desktop applications shrinking, they have a huge incentive to help ease the shift to these applications and make them work. The alternative is to protect their base on the desktop and hope people don't change; In reply to: "Azure manages to avoid a Hailstorm of criticism"

  October 31, 2008

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• what about Brian V?
  bring back Brian Boy!I hope he has a major role in continuing to lead devs there.

  March 22, 2006

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