Why no MS products built with .NET?

[John Bailo]

MS Money 2006 would be a classic candidate for .NET, but it's still
MFC 8.0.

At one point Microsoft was talking about "giving away" MS Money as a
bonus application.

Look, there's no sense in recoding an application that has no profit to
begin with -- might as well maintain the code and come up with something
completely new.

Right now, most banks are implementing far more useful services using
ASPX in their basic online systems. Because their already tied to the
database, you don't have to "import" or "recode" lots of data just to
get some basic analysis.

And that is the point I was making in my first response to you. Just
looking back at applications that were designed 10 or 20 years ago and
saying "well, why don't they recode those" you really have to ask -- are
they still viable? Or is it better to cut new paradigms using highly
agile methods and .NET -- such as CRM as another posted mentioned.

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

John,

The reality is that people have long stopped using traditional standalone
client applications and now now moved to web applications, and beyond
those, to smart client applications.

Read new books, not those from the previous century.

A click once application is much more sufficient, more comfortable for the
client and to manage, and uses less resources.

Although a webbrowser keeps its own market is it not the best solution, it
is the best solution where the others are impossible to deploy.

Just my opinion.

Cor

 

[Lebesgue]

You have to be quite a rich man if you could afford to buy all the 300
software products from Microsoft. Or just a lame troll.

 

[Gabriel Magaña]

Have any of you guys stopped to think about what an awfully huge pissing
match this has turned into? LOL! there's more ego in this thread than
there are in the C++ and Oracle DB admin groups (just kidding, there's
nothing more anal in this world than C++ programmers or Oracle DBAs that
think their farts smell of roses, you guys are safe!)

Let's all take a breather, LOL, though we may spend all day doing it,
programming is NOT a religion!

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Hi Rob,

By your own arguements, Microsoft SHOULD be using .NET to develop their
new products if the turn around is truely faster, but they don't -- MFC
8.0 VC++ seems to still be their prefered choice for old and new products.

I get the impression you didn't read my message, but just scanned it
perhaps. I said that Microsoft IS migrating to .Net. I also explained why it
is taking so long. And by *my* arguments, it is *you* who should be doing
something, not anyone else.

What Microsoft does will utimately impact only Microsoft, it's employees,
and its owners. What *you* do will impact you. Armchair quarterbacks never
won a single game.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
A brute awe as you,
a Metallic hag entity, eat us.