Blogging Ottinger (tim)Standards phobia
Is Microsoft’s fear of standards is deeper than its commitment to standardizing? It looks like .NET is the environment that THEY make for YOU to use, rather than the environment that teams at microsoft choose for themselves. At least that’s what the slashdot article leads one to believe.
A friend once told me that he believes that all products built by people for their own needs turns out to be successful (even beloved sometimes), whereas any tool built by one group of people for some other group to use tends to be ultimately unpopular.
I like .NET much better than I liked MFC, though it still is a bit warty in places. Maybe if the programmers were forced to work in their own environments (and why woul d they have to be?) they would make it more poweful and more usable.
At least it’s a theory.
