Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Sep 4 22:04:01 CDT 2013
Hi Arthur: I just read an article on the same topic but the swing was the exact opposite. It was saying that Microsoft's adoption of the HTML5 standard was only half heartedly. MS just can't win. That fact is if MS wants to be taken seriously in the web world they are going to have to accept the standards. If that means something like the incorporating Google Youtube videos requires standardization, so be it. The rest of the internet has such a huge lead on Microsoft's adoption that unfortunately MS is going to have to just follow and at some time in the future they may be able to introduce their own standard where none currently exists or is not well established. The buying of Nokia phones may be just the opportunity for MS. A platform on which to develop their own standards...not a wise choice, in the long run, but at least in the short term, it may created a small group of entrenched developers. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:05:46 PM Subject: [dba-Tech] Is Microsoft Dumping .Net? Interesting article on I Programmer; suggests that MS's move to HTML5 and JavaScript has left lots of .Net programmers miffed and feeling abandoned. See http://www.i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-programmer/2591-dumping-net-microsofts-madness.html . -- Arthur _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com