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I've asked around how this new .NET plan differs from everything we've been working on the past two years and haven't been given a decent answer.

"What's a web service?"

"Look at Passport! THAT'S a service!" (they love saying that one)

"You mean a web service is just another site that you visit that drops encrypted cookies on your machine?"

"No no no. It enables people to work together! It empowers companies to share information!"

"You mean it lets partners access information that _WE_ maintain in a central repository? How is that different from any other website?"

"We allow users to interact with the service! It's not a static vision of the web! It's a two-way collaboration!"

"You mean users fill out forms to create an account. And then we let them access it. What is new about that?"

The answers just kept getting more incomprehensible.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articl...000000048.html