Interview: Microsoft's David Treadwell
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
We asked David Treadwell, Microsoft's general manager of the .NET Platform Developer Division, to comment on key issues that arose while researching .Net's performance. Treadwell's answers were surprisingly frank and shed light on Microsoft's Longhorn future.
IW: When Windows .NET Server was renamed Windows Server 2003, it raised questions about Microsoft's commitment to .Net as a platform.
Treadwell: We realized that both .Net and Windows were platform initiatives, and in branding Windows server, we chose Windows. WinFX [the collection of Longhorn technologies] is a superset of the .Net platform, but we're now including it as part of the Windows brand. We're trying to move the .Net label more toward Web services, rather than apply it broadly to the whole platform.