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Ok, now Microsoft do some good things in development world from time to time, but now they have just started smoking something very strange…

I’ve read this article a few days ago (I know its almost a year old) and it came up in a conversation today. Microsoft’s SOA vision: ‘The model is the application’

Lets see…  sorry, it is hard typing when you are laughing, this is my favorite part.

The Microsoft approach, which will be embodied in the Oslo tooling, is to make modeling a collaborative effort among business analysts, architects and developers and eliminate the coding step.

Basically, the entire article can be translated from Microsoft talk to English like this:

If you are an enterprise company and can not attract any decent software development talent, have projects that take years to complete because your analysts sill think fake screenshots should go into requirements documents, then this software is for you.

Requirements:

• Ability to use computer mouse, keyboard optional.
• Must have absolutely no interest in software you are building.
• Must be ignorant, preferably a drone.

Features:

• We have thought about every single thing any application can ever do and have created a little box for you to drag and drop onto a canvas.
• If there is a feature that one of our boxes does not do, too bad, because we want to eliminate code.  In next version we will include a box based box builder called Visual Rip-off 2014.

I don’t mind ideas behind model driven architecture, but for Microsoft to come out and say they want to “Eliminate the coding step” means they just have no clue.  I am sure enterprise will carry Microsoft for a little while longer, but this type of mediocre engineering and ridiculous sales press releases are going to be their undoing in the end.

I can’t wait for this system to come out, I already spend most of my .NET development time working on projects that other “Microsoft professionals”, certified up to their necks have completely mangled, making excellent money.