Re: Too funny MS ad in Visual Studio Magazine...

"Rob R. Ainscough" wrote:
>> this is exactly so so so Microsoft. Re-invent the dev tools every 3-5
>> years in the name of progress and hope developers don't notice -- good
>> revenue generation for MS, bad career move for developers as they
>> scramble to deal with the latest crap from MS only to find out it can't
>> do what it used to do, but it does support the Web development better
>> now -- I mean "isn't everyone doing web development"??

When MS moved from the original Basic compilers and QuickBasic to VB, there
were a few developers that couldn't see how great that move was and were
upset at the platform change. VB1 came out 1991. The first betas of .NET
were out in 2000, that wasn't even the official release. Far from your point
of MS changing the platform "every 3 to 5 years" what really happened was MS
stuck with classic VB for 10 years. Man, in our industry 10 years is a
friggin' lifetime! Like maybe 50 years in any other industry. Yeah,
somewhere in the middle of that MS moved from 16-bit computing to 32-bit
computing. Are you actually going to sit here in 2005 and try to assert that
that was a bad move on Microsoft's part??????? So, now, after 10 years (a
lifetime), MS has dared to suggest that platform was aging a wee bit and has
moved to a new platform that allows multiple languages like C++, VB, J#(java
syntax), JScript/Javascript conforming to the latest standards, COBOL, and
advanced research languages to interoperate and be hosted under the same
debugger. They moved to a platform built from the ground up to support web
services and scalable distributed multithreaded applications. This is
something we should be upset with?? By the way, their help and
documentation blows away everything else in the industry and I've seen what
all the competitors offer. Yes, especially in the woeful 2002 to 2003 period
when we were at the abyss of the dot-com bust, more than a few corporations
balked at green-lighting moves from the older platform to .NET. I'm seeing
that change all over town now and I'm seeing, and participating in, some
major big-time successes that are winning hearts and minds to .NET. I'm
working on a WinForms app done in VB.NET that combines data-entry,
instrumentation, high-availability, mapping and telephony integration and is
nothing but a success for a national company and let me tell you we could've
NEVER written this thing in "good ole" VB6 -- never, not in a million years.
It wouldn't have been performant, it wouldn't have taken advantage of
multithreading, it wouldn't have a UI that has the most modern/slick
advantages --- dude... what do you do in your profession such that you can't
see that MS is making life better for developers and our customers?
Distributed computing is still too much in the infancy of its arc to just
stick to one "perfect" platform for decades. Yeah, IBM's batch and online
platforms can still run code from the 60's but I'm employed because companies
can't make their employees stare at 80 columns of text anymore. Sometimes
you just have to swallow hard, square your shoulders and jump into the future.

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