NTK on Microsoft split

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Fri Jun 9 22:05:55 PDT 2000



>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!



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