Cryptic headlines sometimes make for interesting news. This is about a news item I recently read which mentioned the viability of product development outsourced to third party providers, vs. done by own captive development centres in India. And it was probably influenced by the newsmaker in question, which happened to be a third party provider.

It is usual to see discussions and heated debates on internet forums about windows vs. Linux, best programming language, and so on. However, a different idea was floated in this blog link. It questions at a fundamental level the innovations that have happened in java language since it came into being.

The news of Windows services and Live.com site came as a surprise. Here is a company which makes money by traditional software licensing (remember Microsoft EULA?). On reading further, it became clear that it does not involve putting any of the cash cow businesses of Office, Windows etc through the web.