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Microsoft (Scott Gu, etc),

Please do not waste your resources doing this. All companies, including Microsoft have finite resources. ASP.NET 2 is very backwards compatible with ASP.NET 1.1, and there are countless components available for ASP.NET 1.1 (that also work on 2).

Please spend your time and resources enhancing the platform, for the benefit of the entire community....And that means focusing ASP.NET 2, and ASP.NET 3.

I would rather the team expense recources thinking about how ASP.NET 3 might benefit from enhancements like the LINQ project, rather than looking backwards.

Thanks,

David Taylor

marketing...
Sincerely, some nice person sitting in an office somewhere crunching numbers, cost benefit analysis, on what to make a specific technology compatible with makes a decision. That decision is based on the quantity of resources required (time, people, $) to meet that functionality and what it does for the company by achieving that compatibility. Sure MS cares about the community, but their ultimate responsibility is to the sakeholders. Keep in mind Corporate Initiatives, and the affects that decisions have on them. Tech companies want to continue to push technology forward, since it equates to additional revenue.

"If I follow the idea, it means that 3 to 4 months after releasing Vista everybody should use it"

Well that would make a lot of people very rich, or more rich, depends on who we are talking about... But no doubt that could be an goal of the marketing team... (When support end for Win2k set to take place?)

Would it make sense to build mac's that can run either OS/X and WinXP? Oh, wait, bad analogy (http://news.com.com/Macs+Intel+and+Windows+inside/2009-1016_3-6058066.html?tag=nefd.lede)

To answer your question (IMO) sure they could! But at what cost/ benefit and how does that impact the direction they (MS) want to push technology. Might it slow them down since people (the majority of use currently) are continuing to work with older (relatively speaking) technology.
A little ridiculous, but should they make Atlas compatible with PASCAL? There (in MS managements eyes, prolly) needs to be a line someplace in the sand and some analyst gathered the data and suits made a decision.

Ramble, just my two cents I suppose...

Good point..especially since I haven't even switched over to 2.0 officially yet! I'm not really into all those built-in features like memberships and masterpages so I get by without 2.0. But I should get with the times eh? hehe

Realistically, most of the technology dollars are NOT going to the latest technologies. The company I work for has about 15 steady clients, and I head up a couple million dollars a year in ASP 3.0 work with a near-equal amount of ASP.NET 1.1 work.

We have ported all our 1.1 solutions to v2, little or no problem in doing that, so why struggle with 1.1 when you can use v2?, you do not NEED to use all the new things, but it is great to have them handy and implement them when needed..