It gave hundreds of office smart tag related links, but John Coko's link yielded this
http://msdn.microsoft.com/...marttags.asp#techart and another link while we're at it
http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/...010618oppetreley.xml this time on ncs and .net.
snippet:
But what many are missing is the more dangerous threat behind this closed part of Microsoft's so-called new open-standards approach to network computing. If Microsoft controls the management of user data and user authentication, it controls the flow of the services others can provide. It's the Windows desktop all over again, business-wise. You can't compete with Microsoft without first making a deal with Microsoft over something as basic as where your customer's data is stored and how one must access it.
If that thought doesn't bother you, given Microsoft's abuse of its authority in the past, then by all means, embrace what you must view as the beneficent dictator of the future of network computing. After all, most of the concepts of .NET are themselves desirable because .NET is, indeed, simply a warmed over version of platform-neutral network computing. And network computing was the right direction to go in the first place
