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The Longhorn Dream Reborn

Posted by timothy on from the longhorn-dream-is-enlarging-barton-springs dept.

gbjbaanb writes "Early this month, Microsoft dropped something of a bombshell on Windows developers: the new Windows 8 touch-friendly immersive style would use a developer platform not based on .NET. Cue howls of outrage from .NET developers everywhere, but here Ars Technica describes what's more likely to have been going on and why Microsoft is finally getting its act together for developers."

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  1. Re:Standard modus operandi by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Troll

    How did this long, rambling, factually inaccurate glob of nonsense get modded up? .NET isn't going anywhere. You're just a UNIX dinosaur trying to blather on about how the primitive tools you write to develop primitive applications are so stable. Congratulations on that, btw. And I have no problem with UNIX, I just find the old school who never bothered to learn anything outside their little domain but still knock it to be risible.

    Here's a clue - you're not a fucking COM developer, you're a C++ or .NET or (other) developer who uses COM technology. Here's another clue - it's still around and you can use it if you want.

    I'm glad, though, you can spend 10X as much time writing an app in C/C++ and using (lol) your read(2) and write(2) calls.

    I'll be back to mock you in 10 years when .NET 8.0 is being released, btw.