I give. I’ve tried for years to climb out of my complete reliance on Microsoft products to make a living. Can’t do it. I give up. I’m settling in here for the long haul.
The closest I’ve come to busting out in the last few months was by putting jQuery (a javascript library) on a production server here*. (In a big company, such a little thing can represent quite a coup.) And the biggest excitement of the week has been the installation of Visual Studio 2008 on my work machine. And the sad thing is, I really am excited by this 3 year old technology. Now I’ll end up using all sorts of proprietary MS stuff in my code, things like LINQ (ask Robert) and maybe XAML.
And deeper I sink.
*And of course, even jQuery is now distributed with Visual Studio.
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poor bastard...
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You know, some people say I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I actually beleive...wait a minute...poor WHAT!!??
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I use Microsoft's OS, browsers, and office system because it basically works, and more importantly, because I have a pretty ...
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"That which works" is, of course, a very important yardstick, perhaps the only one that really matters in the real ...
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I understand the pragmatic position you and Tom are taking. But I have to point out that Microsoft's monopolies aren't ...
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I've never thought about Microsoft as being a "monopoly."  I'm quite cosmopolitan in my views of systems, and I ...
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PS: Remember when I defended Microsoft and said Linux wasn't ready for prime time? :-) (n/t)
 
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I've never thought about Microsoft as being a "monopoly."  I'm quite cosmopolitan in my views of systems, and I ...
 
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I understand the pragmatic position you and Tom are taking. But I have to point out that Microsoft's monopolies aren't ...
 
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"That which works" is, of course, a very important yardstick, perhaps the only one that really matters in the real ...
 
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You know, some people say I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I actually beleive...wait a minute...poor WHAT!!??