Comments on: Microsoft Has Lost Its Way, Part 1

By: Microsoft Has Lost Its Way, Part 2 « Oddly Together

Microsoft Has Lost Its Way, Part 2 « Oddly Together — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:08:23 +0000

[...] single post, but felt compelled to break it in two, because of the more than 2,000-word length. The first part focused on Microsoft’s past, while this one addresses the present and future. If you want to [...]

By: billybob

billybob — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:48:43 +0000

Word DOC files.

AJAX is not a standard at all. Microsoft get points for accidentally inventing XMLHTTPRequest (only to try to replace it with their own special standard).

AJAX just means ‘using XMLHTTPRequest with XML’ – I find it easier and less resource intensive to use JSON instead of XML most of the time so AJAX is really just a marketing term for what we used to call DHTML.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:19:45 +0000

Microsoft does champion SOAP, XML, WS-* and AJAX. But, no, these technologies don’t particularly favour Microsoft’s technology – they are all published standards (or in the case of AJAX, a collection of standards, including XMLHttpRequest). Microsoft has contributed significantly to many of these standards.

When you said “DOC” did you mean “DOM”?

By: billybob

billybob — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:54:43 +0000

You mention that Sir Tim Berners-Lee got some Finnish award but forgot to mention that he was Knighted and received the Order of Merit for his contributions. Personally I would say that ranks above a Nobel Prize.

On a technical note, you say that MS championed SOAP and XML which favoured it’s technologies, but that could not be more wrong. XML and SOAP are not MS specific at all. The technologies/standards which drove Microsoft were ActiveX, JScript, MSHTML and DOC.

By: Microsoft Has Lost Its Way, Part 2 « Joe Wilcox

Microsoft Has Lost Its Way, Part 2 « Joe Wilcox — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:17:09 +0000