Mark Zbikowski - From DOS 1.0 to Windows Vista

AdityaG wrote:Very cool interview. I know this is not totally relevant to content, but I felt the interviewer was very very very uptight and fake sounding. The older lady that usually hosts this show seemed to be a bit more casual.
Minh wrote:Co-inventor? Don't you mean CoCreator?
samirsshah wrote:Internet is laying to rest and finally will lay to rest COM.
SOA is the new COM. But this time the environment is better. There is development support in terms of Windows Communication Foundation. And there is better adoption, both camps (Java and .Net) have embraced it.
COM had the goal to fit legacy and new applications on a local computer for reuse. It achieved that. But DCOM did not succeed in the Internet age. Hence Internet is laying to rest COM.
SOA has the goal to fit legacy and new applications for reuse over Internet. It is achieving that. It has enough momentum to succeed. I do think that SOA is enabling efficient and cost effective reuse.
An Indian online bookstore I visit is using a US bookstore’s Web Services (May I call it SOA?) to give me seamless Indian experience. It has achieved efficient and cost effective reuse. SOA is another way Internet is laying to rest COM.
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DenvilleSteve wrote:ok, I am getting less and less out of these interviews. There are the Anders Helsberg interviews which are great and I learn a lot. From that highpoint, 80% of the interviews dont put the subject matter in context with the wider software field and they quickly lose me. Shouldnt the central question in the interview always be "what does this software creation of yours do that others dont"?
I think the people doing these interviews should have a lot of knowledge and experience with software. An aging programmer would work, there must be a lot of them around now a days.![]()
Here are the questions I would have liked to have asked:
Who was the other co inventor of COM and how did Tony work with him/her?
I always found COM books very difficult to understand. Was that just me being dumb or thick? What were Tony's impression of the COM books and other education sources available to programmers.
Tony said .NET is not a replacement for COM. But COM is gone, no? Kind of confusing. I guess I would have liked Tony to elaborate on the subject of present day and future COM.
I understand the "draw your favorite data structure" is a standard of the show. I remember Anders Helsberg drawing an interesting one. But Tony did not appear into it at all. You should expand that to "draw your favorite flowchart or data struct". Then Tony could have drawn his favorite flow of events within the COM process.
I only watched 10-15 minutes of the Craig Mundie interview and saw no spark of intelligence or creativity in him. I watched the entire Tony Williams interview and while he does not score low like Mundie, I did not see the brilliance he must exhibit for Bill Gates to put him in charge of such an important project. The fair viewer must fault the inverviewer for this.
Thank you for channel 9. honestly.
-Steve
Tony, it’s a shame you’re a physicist. I say this because in your talk you never alluded to biology or such things. There are superb examples of componentisation in nature at the macro/micro level and from an architecture viewpoint something to be admired. This is not to say they don’t exist in quantum physics.
For instance, some basics building blocks are common to all forms of life on earth such that a butterfly might become an albatross given time. As software’s existence is imperceptible in biological timescales it could just be that one of your legacies, or a colleagues, will have been to help create a software molecule that become fundamental to all future software.
My favourite from all the years of Word, Excel etc has got to be drag and drop.
Chadk wrote:
AdityaG wrote:Very cool interview. I know this is not totally relevant to content, but I felt the interviewer was very very very uptight and fake sounding. The older lady that usually hosts this show seemed to be a bit more casual.
Agreed, she was alot better!