Re: Why no serious MS Application in .NET yet ??

From: CMM (CMM_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:31:04 -0800

? > Where is the business case for completely destabilizing the Office
codebase with a total rewrite?

To remain competetive and shed the reputation that their software is
insecure because of its extra long teeth. Also to put to rest COM and its
super-slow (even on today's computers!) marshaling, instantiation, and memory
leaks.

Lotus asked the same question about rewriting their apps for Win16 and then
again for Win32 and where are they now?

"Richard Blewett [DevelopMentor]" wrote:

> Applications apart from Content Management Server and most of BizTalk 2004?
>
> Where is the business case for completely destabilizing the Office codebase with a total rewrite?
>
> And as others have stated - .NET's been released for 3 years not 5.
>
> Regards
>
> Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor
> http://www.dotnetconsult.co.uk/weblog
> http://www.dotnetconsult.co.uk
>
> As the founder of .NET framework, Microsoft claims that it invention will be
> the next best platform for programming in a near future. Now it is 2005,
> .NET is 5 years old, and can talk and walk for himself with some help of his
> mum.
> However, we see the same native office applications are coming out again,
> and many other tools in SP2 of XP which could be in managed code....but are
> not. So, as the inventor of .NET , why doesn't Microsoft itself use "DOTNET"
> in its applications? Is there any concern over the baby's runnung
> performance inside Microsoft itself, or they gonna teach the baby how to run
> like a C kinda guy in future, so that they'll be able to use it for
> themselves?
>
>
>

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