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... if C|Net tells you Microsoft to work with Eclipse on Java?

Well, Ted Neward is setting us an example:

Ted Neward: My first reaction has to be characterized as... WTF?!?

My second reaction has to be characterized as... WTF?!?

There's some serious credulity issues here. Not credibility, mind you, because I believe the reporter is entirely accurate in this story, but credulity. As in, "That's incredulous!", which is another way of saying...

WTF?!?

Ted went on to remind us how Sun and Microsoft fought over J++, and how J++ had delegates way back when, and how C# 3.0 has lambda expressions which are a natural outgrowth of delegates, and how Java people is still longing for something similar called closures.

I think the real story is not as incendiary. Microsoft is helping Eclipse with porting SWT from Win32 to WFP, just like they would help any other Win32 application to port to WFP. It's not a big deal.

If you are a little bit curiouser, you would do a Google search on the Eclipse guy's name that was mentioned. I did. And what did I find?

• I Hate Windows
• Hacking At Apple

See, things aren't always what the press-releases make you to believe. You see, SWT relies more on the underlying system, and the underlying system is going out of their ways to help SWT. Good for SWT. (And Microsoft, and Apple! Where is Gtk+? Red Hat, Novell, Sun (a big GNOME backer), are you listening?)