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| DATE | 2002-07-25 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Microsoft threatens to end Free Software.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/technology/25NET.html?todaysheadlines
quite a direct threat on free software and open source from
Microsoft...
"... Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open
computing," the
free exchange of digital information that has defined the
personal
computer industry, is ending.
The company is trying to influence an industry consortium
called the
Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, which has been trying
to create a
new standard that will build a cryptographic key system into
future
personal computers.
The idea has been challenged in the past by both civil
liberties and
consumer groups, who argue that it could potentially
undercut privacy
and intellectual property fair-use rights..."
also mentions that the new version of Windows is codenamed
'Longhorn'..
this would presumably be a TCPA - enabled Windows?....
best
miriam
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/technology/
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Microsoft Tries to Explain What Its .Net Plans Are About
By JOHN MARKOFF
July 25, 2002
REDMOND, Wash., July 24 Two years into its quest to create
a new kind of Internet-enabled computing it describes as
.Net, href="/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=MSFT">Microsoft
found it necessary to pause today and try to explain what it
meant.
One day before its annual conference for financial analysts,
the company assembled its top executives before several
hundred reporters and industry analysts and engaged in a
tutorial that one participant referred to as ".Net for
Dummies."
The .Net brand (pronounced dot-net) is Microsoft's approach
to a computer industry market called Web services. It has
two basic ideas: to create standards that allow all sorts of
information to be transmitted and acted upon in uniform
ways, and to move the software that performs those actions
to the Internet, where programs may now span multiple
computers.
Microsoft is now locked in competition with small start-up
companies that originally pioneered the Web services field,
as well as with software and hardware giants like href="/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=IBM">I.B.M.,
Oracle and href="/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=SUNW">Sun
Microsystems, all of which are developing their own Web
services.
Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, Bill
Gates, said that he gave his company good marks so far for
creating the basic software infrastructure for .Net, but
acknowledged that the company had more work to do in
explaining its mission.
"We still get people saying to us, `what is .Net?' " said
Mr. Gates. He said that the idea of the .Net infrastructure
was clear, but acknowledged that the company had not created
a clear view of what it intended for its customers. Many
customers have yet to accept Microsoft's contention that
computer software should be subscribed to as a Web-based
service rather than purchased as a product they own and use,
as most is today.
Jim Allchin, one of the company's top vice presidents,
acknowledged the shift in focus in the industry from
personal computers to plumbing, and bemoaned the difficulty
of getting Microsoft's traditional consumers to care about
its new vision.
"It's hard to get sexy about protocols," he said. "It really
is about plumbing and concrete and protocols."
Moreover, the challenge that Microsoft faces in explaining
and promoting a new style of computing that is intended to
harness millions of disparate large and small computers is
complicated by a growing consensus in the computer industry
that few new software ideas will be realized until large
corporate customers resume spending on the infrastructure of
information technology.
Mr. Gates took some time in his review of the company's
technology to recalibrate the industry's expectations about
how quickly its .Net strategy will take effect.
"Phase 1 is essentially behind us, with things that went
well and not so well," he said. "This is a long-term
approach. These things don't happen overnight."
Microsoft sketched out an abbreviated road map today of how
it will introduce products that offer .Net capabilities. One
example was a communications server program with the code
name Greenwich that is intended to enable advanced
multimedia conferencing features for desktop and hand-held
computer users. Another example was the next version of the
company's database product, SQL Server, named Yukon, which
is intended to make it easier to manage distributed data.
Finally, a brief demonstration was given of Windows Media
Center a PC-based television that is intended to bring
.Net-style information to the television in the living room.
Mr. Gates indicated, however, that the company's software
promised land would be a new version of its Windows
operating system with the code name Longhorn, which is still
at least two years off.
Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open
computing," the free exchange of digital information that
has defined the personal computer industry, is ending.
The company is trying to influence an industry consortium
called the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, which has
been trying to create a new standard that will build a
cryptographic key system into future personal computers.
The idea has been challenged in the past by both civil
liberties and consumer groups, who argue that it could
potentially undercut privacy and intellectual property
fair-use rights.
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