portuno_diamo    8seconds ago    

Smells like money.

Why isn't Microsoft able to do what the rest of the industry is able to do? Why is Microsoft the only company VCSY is suing for infringing 744? Why is Microsoft the only company out of the giants unable to build anything useful on the web?

Why is Microsoft still billing Silverlight 2.0 as a video player when it's supposed to be a graphic user interface (GUI) for web applications when AIR engineers are "marching on".

I submit it is the fact Microsoft is afraid to transgress 521 out in the open. If so, that means the internet work in Microsoft that might be like 744 is also not being done. Thus we see delays in Dynamics and Live. And Silverlight remains a video player.

And all Ozzie can deliver is an RSS pipeline feeding XML from server to client. But, as posters on a technology forum said when they saw Feedsync: too bad Microsoft doesn't have a processing agent that can work those RSS feeds.

And is EVERYTHING a feed on the semantic web? Sounds like Microsoft (perhaps from the 8 years of Ballmer enforced discipline) treat every "conversation" in one direction. First it was SilkRoute and that was a uni-directional feed. Then there's SmartClient which is clunky with COM. Then there's Silverlight but no-where near what a real web application platform should be. Starved features tiptoeing around a ragged edge while Adobe addresses and produces.

Microsoft has the most experience of all in building software. Why can't they?