In addition to the various theories abounding here, I've got another one: Microsoft has historically never been big in distributed systems specifically.
The licenses for their operating systems have always acted to make farms of Windows machines rare. Until fairly recently, the administration approach made it painful. Microsoft had good support for client-server systems, but you did it their way, which wasn't "reactive".
Here's a quick question: Anyone know of any networking/distributed system developments that came out of a Microsoft environment?
The licenses for their operating systems have always acted to make farms of Windows machines rare. Until fairly recently, the administration approach made it painful. Microsoft had good support for client-server systems, but you did it their way, which wasn't "reactive".
Here's a quick question: Anyone know of any networking/distributed system developments that came out of a Microsoft environment?