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

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

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:43:03 -0800

Perhaps you're right... but it just might behoove them to do a "gigantic"
rewrite.... MS is currently having their cake and eating it too and have
taken a serious beating in the reputation department. They can't keep
extolling the virtues of .NET while continuing development on the inherently
less-stable, less secure, Win32 / COM platform. It just doesn't make sense to
me.

"Sean Hederman" wrote:

> "Alvin Bruney [Microsoft MVP]" <www.lulu.com/owc> wrote in message
> news:e0BxRW1HFHA.2276@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > phew, good blog. pure poison. bitter stuff.
>
> Poison? Bitter? Are you talking about
> http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2004/11/02/251254.aspx? Cause I
> didn't see any nastiness there. Merely a point by point refutation of the
> assertion that Microsoft isn't writing stuff in .NET.
>
> > now, i am totally confused. i'm just not buying these .net arguments at
> > all. even the "there's no business case for re-writing components in
> > .NET".
> > Well wouldn't rewriting some core products improve
> > visibility/marketability/consensus on .net?
>
> 60% of MS revenue comes from Office, which at a total revenue of $38bn,
> comes to $22.8bn. Have you ever heard the term "If it ain't broke don't fix
> it". Especially when you're gambling with 22 billion dollars a year.
>
> How much do you think just rewriting the Office Suite would cost? I figure
> at an absolute minimum you're looking at about a thousand man years per
> product in the suite, so around a half billion dollars.
>
> > hmmm, strange. real strange.
>
> Not really. I don't think any company on earth would take such a massive
> gamble. I personally think it's strange to expect MS to throw away billions
> of dollars of existing investment and revenue, and spend billions more in
> order to arrive where they already are. And if you think the Office division
> should take orders from the .NET area, think again. Not going to happen.
>
> Office will gradually migrate pieces of itself to .NET (as is already
> happenning). To expect it to happen in some huge gigantic billion dollar
> extravaganze is unrealistic however.
>
> > --
> > Regards
> > Alvin Bruney
> > [Shameless Author Plug]
> > The Microsoft Office Web Components Black Book with .NET
> > available at www.lulu.com/owc
> > --------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > "Junfeng Zhang[MSFT]" <juzhang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:%23MM0vgwHFHA.576@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> >> http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2004/11/02/251254.aspx
> >>
> >> If you are talking about re-writing office in managed code, I guess that
> >> will be a few decades away.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Junfeng Zhang
> >> http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng
> >>
> >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> >> rights.
> >>
> >> "Herr Lucifer" <"\n"HerrLucifer\n@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:%23cgAZ%231GFHA.2976@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >>> 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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>

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