Comment Re:No serious enterprise customers will adopt this (Score 1) 227
Yes this is article is total speculative horse shit.
In so many ways it would be totally impractical for Microsoft to attempt to do this.
As it's all XML based, anyone who knows anything about XML will know that they can quite easily support several different schemas and backwards compatibility.
My limited understanding of Azure is that it is closely related to Amazon's EC2 and S3 work. They are adopting many of the standards Amazon created for their platform, as are others currently developing cloud based computing services.
So basically Azure is only going to help move forward the standardisation process that will inevitably take place for cloud computing services.
Any standard with a hope in hell of achieving broad community support is going to require extremely good support for maintaining backwards compatibility with previous releases.
In short this guy is completely and utterly clueless.