Charles Simonyi, the leader of the IP team will report to David Vaskevitch. Other organizational changes will be announced after the move has taken place. This move follows the achievement of a substantial portion of the original IP research goals and reflects Microsoft's continuing desire to capitalize on advanced technologies which are developed at Microsoft Research. The costs of the representation are reasonable. Editing is not only possible but in many ways better than traditional text editing.
Source control is superior to text, especially in domain specific contexts.
The functionality of an integrated development environment can be extended by dynamic link libraries. C preprocessor tricks can be automatically converted to more straightforward expressions of what was intended. A number of these results have been patented. The value of IP as a program transformation system has been demonstrated in several PhD theses. Within Microsoft, the Outlook team uses IP operationally to support a small domain-specific language.