Re: XP? I think not!

From: Karl E. Peterson (karl_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:17:37 -0700

Al Reid <areidjr@reidDASHhome.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the cite. Great reading. I'm still not sure where the future
> leads, but good reading. There was little, if anything in the article that
> I disagreed with.

Yeah, but it was just all tied together well. All it lacked was the pile-driver
conclusion, but perhaps it's more powerful that way? Leaving you to say to yourself,
"yeah, that's what *I* thought, too!" :-) 

-- 
[Microsoft Basic: 1976-2001, RIP]
> "Karl E. Peterson" <karl@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:OAK1poLVEHA.1292@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Al --
>>
>>> Being that VB will, at some point, reach end of life, where do us long time
>>> VBers (I've been VBing since 2.0) move on to?
>>
>> I wish I had an answer to that, that I was comfortable with.  I think
>> there's a tremendous opportunity awaiting, just off the horizon a bit, as
>> Microsoft is furiously becoming what IBM once was -- irrelevent.  (Though I
>> will grant that they did learn, just as IBM did, how to make the best
>> keyboards around.)
>>
>> You seen the latest <cite>Joel On Software</cite>?  Well worth reading.
>>
>>   http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
>>
>> This loss (of the "Raymond Chen"'s to the "MSDN Magazine"'s) opens up a huge
>> vacuum, and something's gonna suck on in. <g>  I'm definitely watching
>> Borland. They've made a lot of the right noises.  Not sure they're the ones
>> that'll pull it off, though.
>>
>> Microsoft's biggest competitor is "Microsoft, RIP."
>>
>>> This is not a sarcastic
>>> question (although I admit to excessive sarcasm in my last couple of posts).
>>> I have spent some time playing with and even did a Web Service app using
>>> dotNot.  I've done some Java as well.  Where would you suggest a mid career
>>> programmer concentrate learning efforts as to not be left behind.
>>
>> COM is Love. <g>  (Serious answer, too -- see that cite.)
>>
>> Later...   Karl
>> --
>> [Microsoft Basic: 1976-2001, RIP]

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