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Ken Halter <Ken_Halter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote ...

Is it about trust? More fool you for believing that any huge corporation
like MS has the internal concience to care about its users. Its all about
profit, buddy!

It's a far finer balance than you paint. Of course it's about profit, but
to sustain profit one must also sustain customers.

Not to mention the fact that... if they cared at all about our existing code
base, we'd all have jumped onboard long ago... instead, that "profit" is
going to other companies... like Borland/Delphi, RealBasic and a few others.

Well, bottom line for them, I believe, is that devtools are simply a means to an
end, and have *never* been seen as a profit center in and of themselves. They're
the loss-leaders used to sell the platform-du-jour. Given that, the ramifications
of alienating the developer base are tremendous. And(!), not something the bean
counters can truly enumerate. Those other companies are in business to sell tools.
Microsoft sells (or, more often, gives away) tools to stay in business. That's why
..NET truly was a "bet the company" initiative.

The real victims are the stockholders, much as we feel like it's us. Anyone know
what other historical event coincided with the announcement of .NET?

http://vb.mvps.org/images/BallmerCEO.gif

One month later:

"The developer community is core to us. We need to make sure that all of you who
bet on us so heavily, by applying your time and your energy to learn, to become
productive in building VB applications, and building for Windows, we have to make
sure that we don?t let you down. We give you the tools that will help you with what
you were doing yesterday, today, and what?s going to be demanded of you tomorrow."
- Steve Ballmer, at VBITS, 15 Feb 2000

What I really don't understand is, why haven't MSFT shareholders *revolted* yet?

What *are* they waiting for?

Plus... their "internal concience" and "public documents" don't agree.

What happened to the "Impact Criteria" and "Language deprecation" they
outline in their Language Specification docs...

The VB2005 language spec contains the same text... it also contains a line
that basically says "we can change our minds about anything we want, on a
whim"... including the name of their product, it seems... so, is it VB2005?
or is it VB8... someone please make a decision!... then, there's Paul Vick,
the self proclaimed "Father of VB", who probably never had VB Classic
installed in his life.

Visual Basic Language Specification 8.0
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6d50d709-eaa4-44d7-8af3-e14280403e6e&displaylang=en

Those who still trust Microsoft are truly the fools. They have been warned
repeatedly and unequivocally, often by Microsoft itself.
--
..NET: It's About Trust!
http://vfred.mvps.org


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