Re: Kurt Cagle Comments on Microsoft and XAML

I just finished watching Star Wars Empire Strikes back and I still have
Darth Vader's theme song stuck in my head. Having said that Kurt is
probably not that far off the mark.

My guess is they'll come up swinging now that they're quickly losing
browser market share (I'm sure they're aware of all the polls out
there).

Problem is, his suggestion of getting the opposition going on this
doesn't seem likely (I'm assuming he's referring to the Open Source
community). Everybody's too busy going their own way. Having said that,
that's probably the strength for the current Web: it's a total
hodge-podge of many technologies, many organizations, many companies and
many developers.

Microsoft would have to offer one really really sweet deal for the
entire Web as we know it to fold and for everyone to move over to
XAML/.NET/Windows 200x. That would have to be the mother of all killer
apps.

(my 0.02)



[email protected] wrote: -----


To: [email protected]
From: Gerald Bauer <[email protected]>
Sent by: [email protected]
Date: 12/21/2004 09:43PM
Subject: [xul-talk] Kurt Cagle Comments on Microsoft and XAML

<snip/>

  What's your take? Do you agree with Kurt that
Microsoft wants, quite literally, to recreate the web
on their terms?

  - Gerald

PS: Kurt Cagle will speak at the next VanX meeting in
January. See http://vanx.org/next_meeting.htmfor details.




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