From: Gary Stark on

Phil,

Phil McGuinness wrote:
> Ginny,
>
> snip[ Microsoft isn't worried either and they don't obfuscate their
> libraries or their .NET apps ]
>
> But are they going to write WORD / EXCEL etc in .NET ?
> I doubt they can afford to simply hand over their source code to the market.
>

I would also suggest that performance might be an issue that they're
cosidering in their prognostications here. As good as C# is, for
heavyweight apps such as Word and excess - er, I mean Excel - I think
that C# might fall a little flat of their needs.




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