Microsoft Platform Vision in the Post Bill Era: Meet Craig Mundie

When will formal composition come to software engineering?

In the next ten years, twenty year, ever?

What about the common complaint heard from developers about Microsoft frequent "churn" of software development technologies?

Charles wrote:

raymond,

Craig answers your "when" question in the interview... It's a very hard problem. We "churn" out new development technologies once every, what, 3-5 years? Boy, that's major churn... Also, you can still write applications in C and C++ that work great on Windows. What's your point, raymond? Please elaborate.

C

Regarding the "churn" question:

Visual Studio 2002, 2003, 2005.

.Net Framework 1.0, 1.2, 2.0, ...3.0, 3.5 or 4.0 (next year).

I am definitely not complaining, but many developers are, and I would have liked to have heard Craig's answer to this common question or complaint. I am well aware that this is a sensitive subject with no easy answer.

I for one would like a predictable schedule such as every two years for a new release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework instead of  a variable and constantly changing one.

If anything, my complaint is the very long wait for Avalon or Windows Presentation Foundation and the Expression Suite in particular Sparkle or Expression Interactive Designer.

I am still curious as to his thoughts or speculations as to time frame regarding the first question. I do not believe he gave an answer to that question. I for one think we are at least ten years away, some think it will never happen.

Thanks for a great interview!