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Tech Ed ends with delegates singing from Microsoft's songsheet

...more than a thousand developers waved glow-sticks and joined XML guru Don Box to sing: "All we are saying, is give SOAP a chance... Read more

5 July, 2002 by Peter Judge

Microsoft: Now HTTP needs replacing

...the keynote at European DevWeek in London on Tuesday, Microsoft .Net evangelist Don Box said HTTP presents a major challenge for Web services, for peer... Read more

26 February, 2002 by Matt Loney

Longhorn lowdown: What's up?

...Thankfully, help is on the way. At PDC 2003, Chris Anderson and Don Box showed a 500+ line WSE-enhanced secure, transacted message pipe, and... Read more

17 November, 2004 by Robert W.McLaws

Open source: Supply and demand

Part four: In the final part of this series of articles in response to Eric Raymond, an examination of whether a hybrid model is the way forward Read more

11 June, 2004 by John Carroll

Microsoft steers away from object orientation

...London's Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on Monday, Microsoft software architect Don Box said the company will not invest much more in COM and... Read more

27 January, 2004 by Matt Loney

Longhorn: The nuts and bolts

Mark my words, Longhorn will be immensely popular once it is released - it is revolutionary technology that makes desktop computing better Read more

4 November, 2003 by John Carroll

Speculation about Microsoft's mysterious X#

...come out of Microsoft lately was a nearly throw-away comment from Don Box, a principle creator of the SOAP architecture and an architect with... Read more

10 April, 2003 by Kurt Cagle

Essential .Net, not for the faint hearted

...s library. In Essential .Net, Volume 1, The Common Language Runtime, authors Don Box (an architect at Microsoft) and Chris Sells present the CLR in... Read more

20 February, 2003 by Barb Seewer

Why Web services will kill HTTP - eventually

...the story overstated matters a bit. As Microsoft XML Web services architect Don Box said in a conversation with me, HTTP is way too pervasive... Read more

12 April, 2002 by Larry Seltzer

.Net gets close to fruition

...the functionality is much improved, and the run-time is reasonable," said Don Box, cofounder of DevelopMentor, in Torrance, California. "Any Visual Basic developer who... Read more

4 July, 2001 by Peter Galli and Roberta Holland

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