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.NET, "hailstorm" et al -- the names are hints
.NET is hard to explain because it is one of those Microsoft insider-joke names for what outsiders call Embrace Extend Extinguish.

The clue is in the ironic naming conventions the cocky MS has used post-MS trial when it knew it had the Bush DOJ on its side--Hailstorm, Net, Longhorn. Product codenames that could hardly imply a meaner tone toward the to-be-roped-in, stunned-to-the-ground, and loooooong horned customers.

Of course .NET needs constant re-explaining as it it is only about stuffing core functionality of Windows into a new code base that eclipses the possibility of web-based distributed computing or at least ensures that "Windows" is necessary for whatever computing strategy that might try to compete with desktop Windows. It also in effect tends to obsolete Windows 98 and earlier (and even Win2K in some cases), as we are seeing now in some new utility program upgrades that require .NET and which don't function on Windows 98 or earlier at all.

.NET thus brilliantly "integrates" planned obsolescence AND preobsolesence in that it heads off potential new off-Windows paradigms such as "web" or "utility" computing in addition to snuffing earlier Windows users.

Naturally MS is now pooh-poohing the idea of utility computing--as we are only to do that within the MS NET.
Posted by: KeithRisler   Posted on: 11/20/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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.NET = microchannel?  IT_User | 11/20/03
Well said  Arrg | 11/20/03
You said it exactly  GRindinAxTaRupy | 11/20/03
But Windows IS the intextricable tie  KeithRisler | 11/20/03
Re-complexifying the client.  Delaware Boy | 11/20/03
It isn't computing power  IT_User | 11/20/03
Deployment and support.  Delaware Boy | 11/20/03
Java...  prime21 | 11/20/03
Interesting, but there is more  IT_User | 11/20/03
.NET, "hailstorm" et al -- the names are hints  KeithRisler | 11/20/03
Client recomplexity...  rthorat@... | 11/20/03
Microsoft wasn't the only company to figure this out..  Delaware Boy | 11/20/03
.NET = microchannel?  Chris Moller | 11/20/03
.NET vs Java the platform  epaval@... | 11/20/03
Ummm, Ya...  prime21 | 11/20/03
Bank One in Chicago  EricMarts@... | 11/20/03
CRM Software  Delaware Boy | 11/20/03
NET = microchannel?  lmaxwell | 11/20/03
Potential patent problems reduce your argument to irrelevancy.  dicktaurus@... | 11/20/03
Bottom line...  Jomo_z | 11/20/03
And Previously the Real Zeal was [MS]"Java"  KeithRisler | 11/20/03
I would still say  lmaxwell | 11/20/03
Despite being a .NET developer  Delaware Boy | 11/20/03
Aren't you glad no one ever has had to...  Chris Moller | 11/20/03
No, they are *not* Bagels..  Delaware Boy | 11/20/03
The two are made so differntly too  voska | 11/20/03
Dunkin Donuts  Delaware Boy | 11/20/03
You used to bake donuts?  Jack-Booted EULA | 11/20/03
Wheres the goal?  OhMyGosh | 11/20/03
.net What's that???  psychjoe | 11/20/03
.net "strategy"  michael-t | 11/20/03
So M$'s "elusive strategy" has to be "re-explained..." WHY?  dicktaurus@... | 11/20/03
Truly witty post! The LockNet monster lives!  KeithRisler | 11/20/03
So M$'s "elusive strategy" has to be "re-explained...  bgoss@... | 11/20/03
paint the preeetty pictures  juicie | 11/20/03
Java is so "bad"!  michael-t | 11/20/03
I Like Java But...  RoyTyrellFl | 11/20/03
So you ARE saying M$ malware IS way too expensive and problematic  dicktaurus@... | 11/20/03
I agree...  prime21 | 11/20/03
Really, this is just a way to lock you in.  DonnieBoy | 11/20/03

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