Re: Is there any hope for Microsoft ?

"Dan Barclay" <Dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Brian Moelk" <bmoelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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IMO, COM and all it's variants (ActiveX, DCOM, COM+) are not "dead".

Nor is DDE (unless they finally killed it with Vista).


DDE Share (the network DDE) is gone from Vista, but regular DDE is still
there:

http://blogs.msdn.com/nickkramer/archive/2006/04/18/577962.aspx

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Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp


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