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Come on people, isn't it obvious? Writers like Paul Prescod have no choice but to come off sounding like they are explaining something for the fifth time to kindergarteners. It's not his fault, we programmers are so small-picture heads-down oriented that we can't see the obvious, which is:
At some point MS (maybe at one of their CEO summits) explained to the rest of the corporate world that they too can benefit from API lock-in, just like MS. But to do so, they must find a way to intermediate the resource-based nature of the internet via API's! However! Those programmers you pay so much money for are a fickle bunch. They are wary of writing to closed architectures. You'll definetely have to go through W3C, and you most certainly have to find a way of associating it with XML, even if it is something stupid like XML-defined method declarations. Another tricky point is that it has to be percieved as simple. This can be a problem, because if it is TOO simple then they'll find ways of mapping it to HTTP GETs. So put the word "simple" somewhere in the name, and then make it complicated.
Telltale sign of propaganda machine in full gear: note how in the MSDN Library XML and Web Services share a title of a section, although XML itself is much larger than what MS calls web services. There are many others if you look for them.
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