>From this week's Need To Know, a respected Britnerd ezine:
Splitters! The inevitable occurred, and following the
distinct lack of either apologies or kool-aid drinking in
Washington state, the assumption is that Bill and Steve are
just waiting for Al or George to come to power, re-install
the DOJ staff with friends of Redmond, and quietly forget
about the whole thing. But given the company's blithe
demeanour to political shenanigans (at the time of the
announcement, Steve was in Europe, and Bill was failing to
get a decent haircut), do they even care about creating a
political solution? What Penfield Jackson spotted about MS
was that they were "untrustworthy" types, happy to ignore
the spirit of any suggestion if they can comply with the
wording. And that means that given a legal division, they'll
hack a technical workaround. At the end of this month,
Microsoft will announce the details of its Next Generation
Web Services. It'll spec out an API framework, using that
ole industry standard, XML. It'll be a public API, just like
the lawyers want. But you can bet that that API will be so
driven by the way that Windows works, that it doesn't matter
if you're working with the Microsoft App company or the
Microsoft Window company, if they use NGWS, you'll be buying
it from them, or a bunch of wannabe's desperately playing
catch up with their specs. Doesn't matter who's leading the
Microsoft twins when the appeals end: if they're given
enough momentum, they'll follow a trajectory of exclusionary
methods that'll keep them both lock-step in technological
lock-in. Microsoft isn't fighting the legal damage: it's
planning to route right around it.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2581842,00.html
- Windows services? Web services? NT Technology?
http://monkeyfist.com/articles/514
- RPC's considered harmful
http://www.ntk.net/2000/06/09/dohcompton.jpg
- straight outa Redmond!
