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  1. Re:At the risk of being flamed mightily.. by jalefkowit · · Score: 1 · on Dvorak Says MS Should Buy Opera
    At the risk of being flamed mightily, what's wrong with IE?

    *cough* ActiveX *cough*

  2. Ahem by Doktor+Memory · · Score: 1 · on Palm Teams With Microsoft for Smart Phone

    Visual C++ 1.0 shipped in 1993. True, it didn't get rebranded as "Visual Studio" until much later, but that's, well, branding.

  3. Re:Optimizing beyond Win32... by grotgrot · · Score: 1 · on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft
    Microsoft has spent over a decade essentially supporting only ONE processor architecture, x86

    In the decade before that they also supported 68k based Macs and used pcode (and compiled to it) for a lot of the Office code.

    Windows NT was available for 5 platforms: PowerPC, Intel 860, Intel x86, MIPS and Alpha. (NT was originally developed on the Intel 860 before moving to x86).

    A decade ago Microsoft was definitely a multi-hardware platform company. They even participated in the ACE initiative, which would have made a RISC chip the "standard" processor. Intel finally responded with performance improvements making all that RISC stuff moot.

    I did find this excellent page on the history of Win32 and compiler/toolkit releases.

  4. MS Autoroute UK is the worst by steve_l · · Score: 1 · on Best Online Mapping Site?
    Comparing anything to MS autoroute is not a good complement. A blind idiot gives better directions than MS autoroute.

    In my experiments with that product line, it is actually worst in class. They must have done it deliberately, though I can't see why.

  5. Re:This book is excellent so far by steve_l · · Score: 2 · on Java Development with Ant

    wow, mod this person up. nobody has said nice things about me on ./ before.

    Of my presentations, my current favourite is actually
    The Wondrous Curse of Interoperability , where I get to criticise everyone's SOAP implementation, even the one I work, on, Apache Axis. Plus it has excellent mountaineering photos.

  6. This book is excellent so far by mcroydon · · Score: 1 · on Java Development with Ant

    I'm about halfway though the book, and so far I think it is excellent. I've been reading it bit by bit over school and other projects. It's extremely readable, seems more informative than a 200-300 page O'Reilly book (which are great for intros, but this goes into a little more detail), and includes good coverage of JUnit testing and how it is integrated into ant.

    I had a chance to meet Steve Loughran at Web Services DevCon East, and he's awesome. His website, including a great paper called When Web Services go Bad. He also has a SOAP development blog.

  7. This book is excellent so far by mcroydon · · Score: 1 · on Java Development with Ant

    I'm about halfway though the book, and so far I think it is excellent. I've been reading it bit by bit over school and other projects. It's extremely readable, seems more informative than a 200-300 page O'Reilly book (which are great for intros, but this goes into a little more detail), and includes good coverage of JUnit testing and how it is integrated into ant.

    I had a chance to meet Steve Loughran at Web Services DevCon East, and he's awesome. His website, including a great paper called When Web Services go Bad. He also has a SOAP development blog.

  8. This book is excellent so far by mcroydon · · Score: 1 · on Java Development with Ant

    I'm about halfway though the book, and so far I think it is excellent. I've been reading it bit by bit over school and other projects. It's extremely readable, seems more informative than a 200-300 page O'Reilly book (which are great for intros, but this goes into a little more detail), and includes good coverage of JUnit testing and how it is integrated into ant.

    I had a chance to meet Steve Loughran at Web Services DevCon East, and he's awesome. His website, including a great paper called When Web Services go Bad. He also has a SOAP development blog.