[LittleAlex]

If M$ incorporates any *new functionality* into IE7 that IE6 or a suitable plugin cannot handle, the outcry from corporate America will force M$ to push IE7 to Win2K. I suspect that XML handling will be the major component difference between IE6 and IE7. M$ is pushing XML as the newest Office file format, so all the other divisions are going to be brought into line.

Hopefully they leave .NET junk as an external feature. They should have learned a lesson from the COM, COM+, DCOM fiasco.

-Alex

[TChris]

Hopefully they leave .NET junk as an external feature.

DotNET is just marketing splash for a collection of common technologies. From what development I've done, and documentation I've seen, .NET = HTTP + XML + SOAP + WSDL + Common Language Runtime (C#, VB.NET, etc). Very similar things are also possible with Borland products and Java.

It's kinda like what Intel has done with "Centrino". You take technologies everybody else has too, package them together and give it a whiz-bang name. Presto! Consumers think you have something new and unique.