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The Windows team never fully bought into the .net strategy. The success of Windows 7 has finally given them the leverage to do what they've wanted all along.
by contextfree 15y ago
The Windows team never fully bought into the .net strategy. The success of Windows 7 has finally given them the leverage to do what they've wanted all along.
- contextfree 15y agoAddendum: I don't think this means they're somehow abandoning .net. In fact the early Windows 8 leaks reveal that there's a new "System Language Runtime" which is a lower-overhead subset of the CLR designed to allow you to do things like write shell and IE extensions in managed code. They are also integrating the new JavaScript engine from IE9/10 into the OS, and probably all OS features will have JavaScript APIs as well as managed/native ones. However, .net APIs will no longer be emphasized over native and JS ones, the three options will just be treated as peers.