“Microsoft has drawn up a reasonably comprehensive framework
of its own but it seems to be dependent on a couple of factors
– namely that the whole world adopts it, and starts from
scratch to do so. Either factor sounds just a trifle
infeasible. Let me stick my neck out here. The way of the
future will be one that supports the heterogeneous mass of
complexity that already exists (and there is more on the way, what
with Mobile and all). Single-company solutions, however elegant and
widely adopted they may be, cannot succeed.”
“There is one more question that must be asked – is the
.NET strategy anti-competitive? Of course it jolly well is! What
Microsoft has done is to pull together its own product lines to act
as a building block for the future of the Web. The company is
between a rock and a hard place. Clearly, the future lies in the
integration of today’s applications and operating systems, however,
Microsoft does not wish to concede that customers should have a
choice of different platforms.”