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Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the depends-on-the-faculty-too dept.

spotter writes: "There's an article in Newsweek International that talks about how Microsoft's tactics are turning off an entire generation of CS students from their products and increasing the fortunes of Linux." The article isn't deep or flawless, but hits on a major point: what students learn in school is key to what they go on to do.

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  1. nature or nurture? by mar1no · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    nurture.

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  2. Re:Answer by mgblst · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is how i read it....

    "The article isn't deep or flawless, or any good, but well post it anyway!"

  3. Re:Comp Sci. Students & MSFT by Billly+Gates · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    free. Can you say Morpheus?

    If MS finds a way to limit pirating then linux/unix will gain popularity. If not students will just pirate vstudio and not learn anything new. It wont matter how much ms raises the price of there products. People will just pirate more. Under Windows you can have office and I have to admit the fonts look better in windows. This is why everyone just pirates win32 programs rather then switch.

    It seems like I am the only one here who refuses to load anything pirated on my computer. This is why I only own the learning edition of vc++ for doing mfc code and doing the rest of my work under redhat.

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  4. Re:Well.. what I DO know is this.. by gwernol · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    (Yeah, before you start flaming me, I KNOW Java and .NET are different animals..
    but they ARE competing technologies in some senses.)

    Risking going a little offtopic, I think that they are a lot closer than many people seem to think. .NET really is a direct competitor to Java. The CLI is a virtual machine much like the Java VM (although tuned for more languages than just C#). C# itself is clearly trying to solve the same language design problems as the Java programming language. The .NET framework has fairly similar functionality to the J2EE framework classes.

    They seem pretty comparable to me...

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  5. Completely OT by mav[LAG] · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Isn't your .sig from SQ4? As I read it I experienced deeply pleasant visions of playing too much Ms. Astro Chicken...

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  6. Re:Comp Sci. Students & MSFT by drwhite · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Buddy if you are an educated linux user, you would understand that KDE is going to release version 3 of KDE. Don't start accussing people of lying.