>>Nice try to diver attention from M$ but it doesn't change facts a bit.
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>Agreed. MS has absolutely no long term cohesive plan. They continue to thrash about.
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>Buy VFP. Kill it. Still can't touch productivity in .NET that was had in VFP for small desktop data apps.
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>Use WinForms. No! use WPF. No! Use SilverLight for everything. Nevermind, Silverlight is only for phone dev.... or maybe it isn't, don't ask us.
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>Want some XAML for vectory goodness? Nevermind, everything is going to be HTML5 and javascript.
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>Hell you don't even need to be a programmer to program. Have some Access. Better yet, have some LightSwitch. It's like Access only MVVM'ier. Mmmmmmmm, tasty!
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>Use drop down menus. Hey, these drop down menus seem to be working pretty well. 20 years later: Fire Zee Missiles! Drop down menus killed for Ribbons UI. Guess what MS? Ribbons suck and now they're creeping into Windows 8 File Explorer! http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/cut-the-ribbon-why-microsoft-needs-a-fresh-start-with-windows-8/
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>Use SOAP/ADO/ODBC/OLEDB/XML, shit we don't know! Hey, hope you didn't embrace OLEDB even though we told you to because now we're killing OLEDB.
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>Does anybody at Microsoft know how to effing lead and present a cohesive long term strategy?!?!?!?!?!?
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>MS isn't embracing emerging technology... it has no idea what the hell it's doing.
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>Using MS technology is like swimming with a school of piranhas. MS business units will just as soon eat each other as they will you (the developers).

Hi Brandon, this was a really good and simple description of Microsoft behavior.

I love it, thanks a lot I enjoyed reading it!!