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I hope so...: I hope you are right, but I have a number concerns.

Firstly the hype surrounding XML may lead to pressure from marketing that they have to "embed" XML. Hopefully they just make the thing capable of generating XML and then remove this capability when the world at large realises how awful XML really is. I guess this will follow as soon as people start attempting anything remotely serious with Infopath; Visual Basic for applications and XML, truely a data management marriage made in hell.

Microsoft as a large company is a many headed monster with many competing groups and presumably the XML enthusiasts will fight their pitch even against rational arguments. Maybe Gates has to sack a few people from the Office team before they make their products adhere to the Longhorn way.

I hear that WinFS is based on SQL Server and SQL Server isn't really very relational. This doesn't make it different from other current SQL products but we should encourage Microsoft to go further in the right direction on this front.; Posted by: jorwell Posted on: 02/14/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Patents are a MESS CobraA1 | 02/12/04

Another way of putting it IT_User | 02/12/04

Did you just arrive from another planet? km4hr@... | 02/12/04

MS has used michael-t | 02/12/04

They DID learn a new trick, PATENTS! No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/13/04

Must not have been around long zd-spam | 02/12/04

Squash all competition? No, just open source. No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/13/04

Trust them - LOL Update victim | 02/13/04

Now that everybody has weighed in... IT_User | 02/13/04

i plan to patent JWatson77 | 02/12/04

Let see michael-t | 02/12/04

Hold on a minute! No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/13/04

maybe ryusen | 02/12/04

It is strange that michael-t | 02/12/04

what...patents arent important jimk_z | 02/12/04

How can you patent the already obsolete? jorwell | 02/13/04

Huh? Their schema isn't obsolete. No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/13/04

No it is XML that is already obsolete jorwell | 02/13/04

You really need to look at Longhorn. No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/13/04

I hope so... jorwell | 02/14/04

One thing you can count on... No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/13/04

I know what to do. Not like this isn't done all the time anyway... Michael Kelly | 02/13/04

How do you license GPL'ed code? No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/13/04

Yes, EVERYONE has the right to use it freely... Michael Kelly | 02/13/04

And that's why it won't happen. No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/13/04

How? Update victim | 02/13/04

Don't see how that would work at all. No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/13/04

Open source is currently... IT_User | 02/13/04

On a level playing field that might happen. No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/13/04

Large or small corporations IT_User | 02/13/04

XML and OTHER LANGUAGES Update victim | 02/13/04

Like it or not, the patent was granted. No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/13/04

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