Karim wrote:

Must... parse... sentence...


Sorry, I corrected my original post in pink.

Karim wrote:

Errr... so you're saying I can forget SQL, I'll just be Googling using English Query for database, WMI and filesystem queries from here on out...?


This is only my wild guess, but yes that is what I mean. From next week you will think of SQL and XPath as "syntactic sugar" Tongue Out.

Karim wrote:

I read where they wanted to do a developer preview to hand out at the PDC... Really looking forward to getting my hands on it.  This is potentially one of those "this changes everything" technologies.  But what part does MSN play?  Are they providing web services...?


Me thinks MSN has been dogfooding Atlas for some time and what we will get is in partly what different MSN teams developed for their own AJAX type projects.

Phoenix means super advanced compiler technology to me. It is not that I know a lot about it, but you can find more on http://research.microsoft.com/act/