Roger Gonzalez said: >It just frustrates me to read such obviously incorrect M$ bashing. I mean, >there are SO many REAL reasons to bash 'em! I'm not going to be a M$ >apologist, but the core of .Net is actually pretty interesting. > >I'm fairly non-partisan these days - I have four Linux boxes in my house, >and I use a dual-monitor W2K setup as my front end (the monitors are held up >with a Dec Alpha and a Sparc IPX -- sad, but buying genuine monitor stands >from Staples was going to cost me more than what I could get for hocking my >ancient workstations on eBay!) and am seriously considering getting >something to run OS-X. I do multiplatform C++ and I've done Java in the >past (a bunch of my friends worked in the Java group at Sun), and if I've >learned anything in my career, its that sucky software transcends all >borders. :-) > >-Roger I have to grudgingly agree with this. I work in a primarily WinCE based handheld software shop where most of our future strategy is targeted toward .NET. So far, from my studies, .NET is not simply a repackaging of M$'s pseudo-Java. Now, for some hearsay based (but hopefully better) M$ bashing... ;) I have yet to actually work with the .NET visual studio, but from what my coworkers who have worked with it are saying, I'm under the impression that the "CE.NET" implementation does NOT include many of the objects and behaviors that the desktop 2K/XP/etc .NET provides. (Note: I am not sure if they are working with the final "release" version, so things may still change for the better) Basically this means that the M$ write-once, run-anywhere-that-is-a-M$-OS propaganda isn't actually true. I'll give M$ a point or two for improving on some of Java's rougher edges, but so far all I'm hearing are horror stories about .NET's handheld implementation. Which, to me, means that the whole thing is still typical M$ smoke and mirrors. --friar -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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