And I never said you said that. ;~)

>I've never said that someone should stay with Microsoft.On the day MS announced EOL, I blogged that moving to a non-MS language is one of your choices. http://www.craigberntson.com/blog/2007/03/its-not-dead-jim.asp. In fact, I said the same thing when I blogged in June, 2005 that Sedna would be EOL. http://www.craigberntson.com/blog/2005/06/end-of-road-nope-just-bump.asp
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>(For those still following this thread and were still shocked when the EOL announcement was made, note this post was almost two years before that announcement.)
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>>Sure, that's how they worked to kill sales so they could then use dead sales to justify the EOL decision. But perhaps one way you fight back is to not retool just because they "hint" about it. The rest of the IT community can put the ring through their nose and be led anywhere M$ says to go, but I'm going to be working with non-MS tools so that I don't have to play their little "now use this product, oh, we're killing that, now use this one, oh, guess what, now you have to change to this other one" game.