This is Steve Gillmor-class word salad. Microsoft is alternatively described as a ship, a water buffalo, a cathedral construction crew, something that guards a basket, a monarchy, and a net hanging in the jungle. The various metaphors try to fight it out, but they don't have a chance amidst all the cliche and jargon.
This level of inattention to language makes me think that not many neurons were fired during the writing of the article, and prejudices me against what might be a perfectly valid point, if I could find it.
Not only is it incomprehensible, it's factually inaccurate. According to Eckel, IE came along after Google, which is funny considering Microsoft got sued for bundling IE before Google was even incorporated.
He also asserts that IE started the browser wars. As I recall, there was competition from the very beginning, with Netscape Navigator battling with NCSA mosaic. And even upon the advent of IE, you've got to turn your sites toward AOL as well.
> But [MS .Net is] not revolutionary as Java was (by introducing the virtual machine, garbage collection and unified error reporting into the programming mainstream).
which is odd, because Visual Basic had been running a bytecode interpreter with garbage collection since 1991.
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This is Steve Gillmor-class word salad. Microsoft is alternatively described as a ship, a water buffalo, a cathedral construction crew, something that guards a basket, a monarchy, and a net hanging in the jungle. The various metaphors try to fight it out, but they don't have a chance amidst all the cliche and jargon.
This level of inattention to language makes me think that not many neurons were fired during the writing of the article, and prejudices me against what might be a perfectly valid point, if I could find it.
It actually reminds me of this: http://i25.tinypic.com/2it1s9.jpg
Yes! Friedman is an even better comparison.
Not only is it incomprehensible, it's factually inaccurate. According to Eckel, IE came along after Google, which is funny considering Microsoft got sued for bundling IE before Google was even incorporated.
He also asserts that IE started the browser wars. As I recall, there was competition from the very beginning, with Netscape Navigator battling with NCSA mosaic. And even upon the advent of IE, you've got to turn your sites toward AOL as well.
We also have this;
> But [MS .Net is] not revolutionary as Java was (by introducing the virtual machine, garbage collection and unified error reporting into the programming mainstream).
which is odd, because Visual Basic had been running a bytecode interpreter with garbage collection since 1991.