“Bill Gates launched .Net, a new way of programming Windows applications, to much fanfare in 2000. And when Microsoft started developing Windows Vista, a new operating system due out this year, company officials promised it would make heavy use of .Net. But British programmer Richard Grimes says Microsoft is pulling back on use of .Net in Vista. Grimes studied a prerelease version of Vista and found that it didn’t use .Net much. Grimes’ conclusion: Microsoft has lost confidence in .Net and no longer plans to use it to write its own software. One downside to the change in plans: The older programming tools that Microsoft programmers used to write Vista could result in an operating system that’s more virus-prone than a version of Windows written with .Net, which has built-in security features,” Owen Thomas reports for Business 2.0.
Full article here.
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Oooooohhhh.
Sputnik will be very sad.
Is anyone really surprised?
They should switch to Xcode.
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im sure either way stoopid windows users will put-up, i like being a minority – makes me feel special (superior :p)
Sputnik where are you?
Whew.
That was a good one.
Jake
Just going gold will make Vista more virus prone.
I am still confused on how this is going to be a better operating system than Windows XP? What will this OS do that XP wouldn’t? Other than maybe work. Billy should just bite the bullet and copy Unix.
You ever get the feeling that these MS guys are just f-ing LOST!
I see a picture in my mind and it’s of Bill Gates running in circles in his office – flapping his arms up and down and hooting like a bird.
When will people around here learn that Sputnik is using irony as humour?
“Sputnik will be very sad.”
Not really. The crapware known as Windows, and its subsequent shortcomings, are what keep guys in this supposed ‘real IT world’ employed. The people making the hiring are too dim witted to realize they are being fleeced by a nation of community college droputs who learned just a little more than that average joe about computers and can throw enough technospeak at people to keep the truth from coming out.
No sputnik likes this development. Means he can stay employed and put more neon under his car.
So what new features are left for Vista? Transparent windows?
You ever get the feeling that these MS guys are just f-ing LOST!
MSFT engineers are the equal of any. The problem is MSFT leadership. There isn’t any.
MSFT engineers are constantly being redirected to follow a “new” path, which leaves a lot of work unfinished and in a state of confusion.
When will people around here learn that Sputnik is using irony as humour?
I’ll buy that the moment someone comes forward and says “Yes, I posted as Sputnik, and yes, I was joking.” Until then, I personally believe he’s a troll. (Or at least the original one was. Who knows how many there have been?) Show me the difference between Sputnik’s posts and those of any other Windows troll. His tone of voice? Okay, so he’s a pompous ass, what does that prove?
Look, the pattern is clear: something is reported that can be spun negatively against Apple. “Sputnik” posts, rubs our nose in it and starts a flamewar. Where I come from, that’s called “trolling”, not “ironic humor”.
And spyware, antivirus, and spam blocker software companies rejoyced on the news! Five more years of exponential business growth!
What was the name of that device they just released…that tablet thing..I can’t remember?
I would note that this blurb is just an rumor/opinion piece.
Wonder how this will affect Adam Christianson of the MacCast podcast. He’s a .Net programmer.
Thousands of the world’s top programmers and all they can come up with is…
“Ummm… .Net? …uhh …never mind. We’re going back to the same buggy old programming language that we had 7 years ago.”
It makes ya wonder what the whole MS engineering department were doin’ all that time. I’d LOVE to have their salary for so many years with nothing to show for it. I can really do that!!
I am actually feeling deep sympathy for their users. Promises after endless promises with nothing but abuse at the end. The users need to see Dr. Phil about spousal abuse.
Definitely read Richard Grimes’ article because it’s an eye-opener. For instance, I had no idea WinFX wasn’t installed by default in the recent Vista releases. WinFX is supposed to be the big .NET replacement for the aging Win32 API. Now, I’m sure it will be included on release, but it means Microsoft isn’t even using WinFX for its OS, at least in the recent “feature complete” builds.
Also interesting is that the Explorer shell, which was once written in managed .NET code back in 2003, is now a native code version again like today’s Windows XP.
I’m genuinely surprised at the lack of .NET usage in Windows Vista.
Computer idiot said:
“So what new features are left for Vista? Transparent windows?”
Well, it has to be not Transparent Windows, but Transparent Windows Vista.
It’ll be so transparent that you can see that whats under is the same old OS.
Sputnik finally says dotNyet to .NET?
Lord Robin: when will you learn about the double bluff. He pretends it’s all high irony, but in reality he really means a lot of it. Look back on his comments and you will find a few where his true nature appeared and in haste he forgot to dress up his comments…
He is no fan a Apple Macs I can tell you. Don’t pander to him if I were you.
The detailed and quite well researched article about this story is on this link.
http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/dotnet/vistaAndDotnet.htm
What makes it more powerful is that Grimes (the author of the said research) is a self confessed fan of .NET
Perhaps his article should be posted to a few corporate tech and strategy departments as an FYI. It might even be best not to mention at first that the Mac is so much better. Just let them stew in their own juice for a week or two first.
After all, if MS thinks that .NET is not good enough to use for Vista, then why should a corporate think it is good enough for anything else.
I can hear it now, the rising thunder of millions of printers churning out CV’s with .NET erased.
Cool !!!
MW. ‘past’ as in Vista is in the past before it even arrived.
You know we haven’t had a post from Sputnik for months and people here are still talking about him (and I guess I am as well). Seems to me he’s become something of a cult figure. And I’m with MCCFR, Sputnik was using irony as humour. His word dripped with it and I’m amazed that hardly anyone else realised it.
I showed some of his posts to my wife (who is a chief sub-editor) and she was cracking up with delight. Some of you guys need to get a reality check and realise that there’s a world out there; and in that world there’s a place for humour.