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Microsoft Cancels Major Developers' Conference

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-distracte-me-from-Vista dept.

Kurtz'sKompund writes "Microsoft has cancelled its autumn Professional Developers Conference, citing bad timing in light of the launch of important infrastructure and platform products. This isn't the first time they have cancelled a PDC, for similar reasons."

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  1. I work with MS products. by ushering05401 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    VS2005 targeting Win 2000 through Vista to be exact. Nice product VS2005. I can write very nice apps with c# and the .NET framework.

    I adopted MS because the shop I began working IT with served mostly MS customers, and now my shop does as well... just a reality of working in a niche market where MS has been the accesible OS for so many years.

    Why, I ask, am I pulling my hair out every other week?

    Does a properly run company cause a dedicated client to want to pull his already diminishing supply of hair from his head every time he reads their press releases?

    Products that have been *both* delayed and had functionality removed in the last 8 months:
    Vista
    Viridian (virtualization)
    Server 2008 (announced that a major incremental will be released in 2009 to replace the functionality if that actually happens... so who the fuck is going to upgrade in '08?)

    I depend on this shit. Why? Because you formed a friggin monopoly and all of my potential customers use your products.

    Get your shit together.

    Regards.

    1. Re:I work with MS products. by ushering05401 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I agree.

      Unfortunately, as I have posted on other threads here, most of my customers rely on multiple small applications to run their businesses. Porting them to OSS would be a massive undertaking and would require cash that most of them don't have, and applications that don't exist (take construction-specific management apps for instance).

      I have defended MONO and it's developers on this site and others with the stated purpose of promoting an alternative to MS. The fact remains, however, that most of my customers do not have equal options on OSS platforms at the current time.

      I would be unable to develop equal options considering the wide variety of applications that have developed in the MS ecosystem over the last 15 years or so, and that my customers depend upon.

      I would walk away from MS, but that would involve abandoning my customers who are locked in, and with whom I share the common goal of feeding our families by running our own companies instead of working for others.

      Regards.