Gates: .NET won't happen overnight

eWeek | at | by Mike

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today responded to critics who call his company's .NET initiative incomplete and lacking innovation by acknowledging that it will take at least four or five years before the promise of .Net is realized. ".Net is not an overnight thing," Gates told 325 university facility members as he opened the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit here. "A lot of work needs to be done to put standards such as reliable messaging and transaction support in place. We have a commitment to XML to allow for information exchange."

And Benjamin Benderson, director of the human computer interaction lab at the University of Maryland, demonstrated the DataLens research project for mobile devices. The project enhanced the calendar in the Windows CE interface so that it uses the .Net Compact Framework, and is written entirely in C#.