Future of COM?

Hello all,

Is there any truth to a rumor that MS is planning to drop support for COM?
A technically inclined managerial type from a medical software company made
a comment that the first version of .NET would support COM, after which COM
would be toast, or words to that effect.  He seemed quite convinced and
confident.  Is he being taken in by hype, or does he know something I don't?

My hunch is that COM won't go away easily, and/or that a version of Windows
that fails to support it won't sell very well.  There was a time when I'd
have said, "What?  It's a documented part of Windows; it _can't_ just
disappear!"; now I post questions to see if you guys have heard anything
along the same lines.

Have a good one,

Bill

--
Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
[hidden email]

Typically MS sales, spreads rumors thru clients about something to see
the reaction. This is sort of a clandestine MS operation to get
reactions. I know they have done this with Visual Foxpro (just so they
can sell more VB) and were forced by the community to actually make a
video starring Steve Ballmer negating the rumors.
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/prodinfo/ballmer.asp)

 MS will neither acknowledge or deny until they make a decision based
on the response to the rumors. My suggestion is to challenge the rumor
spreaders and ask them where they heard about this and get a name.


On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 01:52:31 -0500, "Bill Schwab"
<[hidden email]> wrote:

COM will be around for a long time to come.

1.  The .Net Runtime is a COM Component.
2.  Visual Studio .Net "release candidate" still crashes on me at least once
a day.
3.  The MS Slideware at the PDC last month says that they don't expect
"tradtional" companies to begin deploying .Net solutions until Fall 2003.
They target "widespread adoption" for Fall 2005.

Best Regards,
Daryl

"Bill Schwab" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
news:9ti7a4$hhh$[hidden email]...
> Hello all,
>
> Is there any truth to a rumor that MS is planning to drop support for COM?
> A technically inclined managerial type from a medical software company
made
> a comment that the first version of .NET would support COM, after which
COM
> would be toast, or words to that effect.  He seemed quite convinced and
> confident.  Is he being taken in by hype, or does he know something I
don't?
>
> My hunch is that COM won't go away easily, and/or that a version of
Windows