Having been at PDC 2005 and seen the praising of .net myself, I felt clearly confident that Microsoft and .net would be a marriage that lasts for years, with the inventor supporting the technologie virtually forever.
But Richard Grimes collected indicators that it wouldn't be so. Searching Windows XP and it's various successors for traces of OS-shipped applications, tools and (who knows) core services of the Operating System that rely on the .net Framework. He couldn't find much that encouraged him in thinking that Microsoft would indeed trust in it's new (cool !) technology.
Having said that, it also need to be stressed that the core developers that work on the Windows-core having been developing unmanaged (thus non .net) code for a long time. The risk of scraping everything they did (like Windows explorer) and start anew would be tremendous. But even then, Microsoft can be expected to be more honest to at least it's developer base, like PDC 2005 etc.
Read and decide for yourself: http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/dotnet/vistaAndDotnet.htm
But Richard Grimes collected indicators that it wouldn't be so. Searching Windows XP and it's various successors for traces of OS-shipped applications, tools and (who knows) core services of the Operating System that rely on the .net Framework. He couldn't find much that encouraged him in thinking that Microsoft would indeed trust in it's new (cool !) technology.
Having said that, it also need to be stressed that the core developers that work on the Windows-core having been developing unmanaged (thus non .net) code for a long time. The risk of scraping everything they did (like Windows explorer) and start anew would be tremendous. But even then, Microsoft can be expected to be more honest to at least it's developer base, like PDC 2005 etc.
Read and decide for yourself: http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/dotnet/vistaAndDotnet.htm
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