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.NET Programmers In Demand, Despite MS Moves To Metro

Posted by timothy on from the lagging-indicator dept.

mikejuk writes "Are you a newbie programmer looking for a job? It seems your best bet is to opt for .NET. According to technical jobs website Dice.com, companies in the U.S. have posted more than 10,000 positions requesting .NET experience — a 25 percent increase compared to last year's .NET job count. So Microsoft may want us to move on to Metro but the rest of the world seems to want to stay with .NET."

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  1. Confused by sourcerror · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't Metro just a different GUI library on top of .Net?

    1. Re:Confused by SpryGuy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That is factually untrue.

      "Microsoft demoed creating new WinRT components on both C++ and .NET."

      http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Sep-15.html

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  2. What a stupid headline by ilsaloving · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of *course* .NET programmers are demand 'despite the move to metro'. Windows 8 isn't going to be release for at least a year, and Windows shops need software built *now*.

    I mean, c'mon... that's not even wrong!

  3. Slashdot needs competent editors, not user surveys by pdxChris · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot just did a survey, that asked whether readers would recommend Slashdot to others. Here is a perfect example of why I answered No to that question, and would have picked Hell No if that option had been in the survey. An increase in job postings for .Net is newsworthy on a "news for nerds" site. Totally ignorant, misinformed, clueless, stupid, arrogant and worthless editorializing, in the article and the headline, is not at all news for nerds, nor is it stuff that matters. Not only is the commentary about Metro completely wrong, so is the "home for newbies" slant. The linked article clearly indicates that more than 70% of resume searches in .Net are for developers with at least four years of experience. Obviously it's impossible to have four years experience with Metro, but it is entirely possible to have been using .Net for a decade now. The article has no mention at all of Metro. The article also mentioned an utterly ignorant, untrue, trite fear of .Net developers: that their skills do not carry over to other platforms. I guess this means a lot of fearful .Net developer who have never heard of Java? Where does Slashdot get the editors to approve this kind of junk?

  4. Re:Microsoft Does Not Eat Its own Dog Food by PPH · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The demand for .NET programmers is to fill the vacancies created by the previous group having seen the light and fled.

    Dice.com posts ads for positions that companies are having trouble filling.

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