The Vision
The Web has evolved a long way from browsing static Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) pages. Today, users can download music, participate in auctions, buy items online, and even talk to their family face-to-face over the Internet. Even businesses are not behind. They have been implementing business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) applications that communicate over the Internet.
Microsoft believes that the Internet will evolve from a collection of isolated Web sites and applications into a general “communication bus” for distributed applications. Individual parts of the distributed application could be running on different hardware and software platforms. The computing devices include your desktop systems as well as ...
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