The Independent - London, May 27th, 2001
The daggers were drawn for Microsoft again recently, with a curious group called Procomp blasting its ".net" strategy as another attempt to monopolise the IT industry.
It may have a point, but what is beyond doubt is that .net is one of the most significant things to have happened in IT for a couple of decades, and at the same time the most confusing.
At a recent conference in the US, Mark Frank, technical evangelist for the enterprise and partner group at Microsoft, gave an hour-long presentation mapping out .net. This was a boiled-down version of his usual three-hour stint, he said - a com...
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