Changing My Mind On Microsoft
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Changing My Mind On Microsoft
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Re: Changing My Mind On Microsoft
#2Essentially ...
"Nowadays nobody under thirty writes anything on Microsoft developer tools unless they are demented or brain-dead. Firstly the kids out of the colleges know the platform agnostic stuff well. Secondly when half the computers leaving factories either run iOS or Android (that is are smart-phones) nobody sensible will write in a way that does not allow easy porting to these platforms."
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#3All internal computer now run as virtual machines (not desktops) running on two mondo-powerful Linux servers. The virtualization platform is Citrix. Nobody has a functional box under their desk any more....The company has got rid of the desktop computers entirely (sorry Dell and HP)
What? How are they accessing these virtual machines? Mind meld? In most cases where companies use VDIs the desktop machines are the standard old Dells and HPs because they actually cost less than "dumb terminals" (aka thin-clients). And that's accepting the questionable notion that VDIs are the future.
Nowadays nobody under thirty writes anything on Microsoft developer tools unless they are demented or brain-dead
We have been on a hiring binge lately and it is very difficult to find candidates who know anything but Microsoft tools. Sure they might know github, but there is a very substantial part of the workforce that stills crawls into Microsoft's bosom.
In general this blog post is completely detached from reality. There is the "startup" culture, of course, where everyone runs an iMac and develops iOS and Ruby/MongoDB apps for their EC2 cluster, and then there's the many magnitudes bigger general computing world that holds zero similarities.
Re: Changing My Mind On Microsoft
#4Essentially ... "Nowadays nobody under thirty writes anything on Microsoft developer tools unless they are demented or brain-dead. Firstly the kids out of the colleges know the platform agnostic stuff well. Secondly when half the computers leaving factories either run iOS or Android (that is are smart-phones) nobody sensible will write in a way that does not allow easy porting to these platforms."
Great way to insult your audience.
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#5Essentially ... "Nowadays nobody under thirty writes anything on Microsoft developer tools unless they are demented or brain-dead. Firstly the kids out of the colleges know the platform agnostic stuff well. Secondly when half the computers leaving factories either run iOS or Android (that is are smart-phones) nobody sensible will write in a way that does not allow easy porting to these platforms."
Great way to insult your audience.
Is fine to be angry.. but please try to maintain the discussion in a good level... your comment would be more appreciated without the vulgarities.
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#6I agree with most of the article, but the "The Ubuntu Unity failure" was only a temporary one.
The author says it got better, but in reality Unity already overtook Windows' UI and it will overtake Apples UI with one of its next iterations.
As a younger (though not that young) developer I have to agree that using MS developer tools is the wrong way of doing things for most new software, not all of them though, it sure has its uses. But I am strongly against proprietary software that only runs on one OS as that will only lose you business. Even the game platform Steam seems to have gotten to that point, a Linux port is on its way.
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#7His attack on using developer tools was harsh, but I'm over 30 so it didn't apply :)
But seriously, I'm afraid he is close to the truth. As a career Windows programmer, I have great fear for the future after having tried the 2012 preview -- I've never felt so lost on a computer in my life. For my own selfish sake, I keep praying they'll make some changes before final release.
Re: Changing My Mind On Microsoft
#8I agree with most of the article, but the "The Ubuntu Unity failure" was only a temporary one. The author says it got better, but in reality Unity already overtook Windows' UI and it will overtake Apples UI with one of its next iterations. As a younger (though not that young) developer I have to agree that using MS developer tools is the wrong way of doing things for most new software, not all of them though, it sure…
The great thing about propietary software and one OS (Windows specifically, OS X too though) is people using those operating systems expect to pay for their software. I'd love to come out with a Linux version of my software, but I'd then be competing with 10 free versions, and worse, a mindset that expects everything to be free. I gotta eat!
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#9> My personal gripe was how poorly Microsoft thought about and handled security issues. My Linux computer is as far as I know virus free.
He is comparing Windows 95 to Ubuntu 11.04 (if you follow the link in that sentence)!
> They [devs] did not bother developing for other platforms because those platforms were economically irrelevant and the Microsoft developer tools worked.
Then he doesn't even make the connection to virus writers targeting Windows between 199x-200x.
> Windows security issues are everywhere and it did not need to be so.
Sorry, but that's mostly due to the desktop market size and Windows' share of it.
Everything after Windows XP had security at its core.
Blame the users who are clueless, that are emailing viruses to all their contacts, download Trojans and warez with backdoors, etc.
And again, he is comparing decades old MS OSs to latest versions of Linux and OS X.
> Nowadays nobody under thirty writes anything on Microsoft developer tools unless they are demented or brain-dead.
Completely false statement.
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#10> Nowadays nobody under thirty writes anything on Microsoft developer tools unless they are demented or brain-dead.
Hmmm.... i am 29, i write C# and .NET for a living... there are a few lads in the office that are .NET Dev, under 30... I must be in a black hole then...