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Sunday Nov 09, 2003

Blogs as disintermediation.

Comments[0] by Dave in Blogging
James Robertson: How hard was it in the past to get ahold of the product manager for something at an outfit as big as MS? Now look at it - straightforward access, including contact information. That's huge. It used to be that you had to go to a trade show (and swim through huge crowds) or be an important customer and get ad hoc access. Now anyone with a browser or news aggregator can get far more details.

Joe on Longhorn.

Comments[1] by Dave in Microsoft
Joe Gregorio on Longhorn: That basically covers it. Three major components, all useless in their own right, now stacked together on a shaky foundation to make an even more useless heap.

Joe Gregorio makes lots of valid points in response to Marc Cantor's gushing fanboy Longhorn post, but I'm not sure Joe has all of his facts straight. Is Dot-Net really built on top of COM? I thought Dot-Net was a whole new component model and required bridging technology to hook it up to COM. Is user-supplied meta-data the whole idea of WinFS? I thought the whole idea was to suck SQLServer into the operating system so that DBMS vendors Oracle and IBM can be microsofted as Netscape, Stac, and others were. Is it be true that Microsoft has never shipped a pure Dot-Net application? I hope this one is true, is it?

Is that really necessary?

Comments[1] by Dave in General
NY Times : Cornell University physicists reported they had used a laser beam to pluck the strings of a tiny silicon guitar just 10 millionths of a meter long.

Is that really necessary? Bunch of showoffs!

365gay.com: If Charles succeeds to the throne, and the allegations are proved true, it would make him the first known bisexual monarch since William III. The only openly gay British monarch was Edward II, who was put to death in 1327 by having a red hot poker brutally shoved into his anus by rebellious barons.

Is that really necessary? Take it easy on poor Charles.

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