June 3, 2008 - UML Renaissance or Apocalypse?: Bill Gates Reveals UML Strategy at TechEd 2008
During his TechEd 2008 keynote presentation, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates revealed that the Oslo-wave release of Visual Studio Team Studio will support the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Gates said the keynote was his "last public speech as a full-time chairman of Microsoft," and he covered a wide range of topics related to future technology advances. Although the Microsoft founder acknowledged "that the modeling world is fairly disparate today," he stated that Microsoft will have additional support for UML in Visual Studio 10 for the specific modeling tools that are there." Will this mark a renaissance for UML modeling or is it just more Muddle Driven Marketecture by a software giant in decline? The text of Gates' keynote is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2008/06-03teched.mspx.