Despite Microsoft Corp’s efforts to promote Object Linking and Embedding 2.0, leading developers are resisting a move to the first beta version of the development kit for both technical and competitive reasons, PC Week reports. Its object-oriented underpinnings imposes a formidable development burden that means it will be several months, if not years, before they […]
Despite Microsoft Corp’s efforts to promote Object Linking and Embedding 2.0, leading developers are resisting a move to the first beta version of the development kit for both technical and competitive reasons, PC Week reports. Its object-oriented underpinnings imposes a formidable development burden that means it will be several months, if not years, before they can deliver applications that exploit its improved data-sharing capabilities. But they are also nervous that Microsoft’s applications group – responsible for OLE 2.0 – has had the specification, and code, since 1991. Microsoft has been demonstrating prototype versions of Word and Excel that exploit OLE 2.0, leading many third parties to believe that it has a substantial advantage.
