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Microsoft made a fundamental error when it left its massively huge VB user base high and dry.


Perhaps Microsoft should have added VFP to .Net and left VB on it's own. <s>






>I wonder if this guy wears a pair of shoes only once?... Or drives his car until it is out of gas and then buys a new one?????
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>Such a cavalier attitude having zero to do with "business" and everything to do with being an uninformed columnist who's career is likely built on marketing material and hearsay and never even one day of coding! And pleasing advertisers.
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>A language is "old" after 7 years?!?!?! C should then have been buried long ago! So should COBOL and PASCAL and tons of others. What a STUPID STUPID statement.
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>The author is obviously your (watch the) "bleeding edge" kinda guy. If some marketing material says something over and over again it must be true!
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>Microsoft made a fundamental error when it left its massively huge VB user base high and dry. Sure, techno-zealots think it's great to have a new language to learn, and I presume that Microsoft assumed that most of its VB base were that type.
>The author categorizes the hangers-on as "...enthusiasts and amateurs, the type of people who used to litter the Web with badly written VB applications...". I suppose Microsoft deserves a huge slap in the face for appointing so many of these sub-standard developers as MVPs!
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>Microsoft was proud of the fact that there are (were?) millions and millions of VB developers out there. Was Microsoft so stupid as to not realize that these millions were coding useful applications for going business concerns??? Did Microsoft really feel that those businesses were happily going to:
>1) re-train all those developers
>2) trash their run-the-business (application) assets????
>Microsoft blew it BADLY but hasn't the balls to admit it. Rather, they commission sycophants like this author to tell people over and over and over again that anything not .NET is B-A-D BAD.
>It ain't working, Microsoft. people have stopped swallowing bait without sniffing it out thoroughly first (except your techno-zealots, of course, who number few compared to the millions and millions). .NET ain't yet - more than 3 years after release - ready for prime time.
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>A business that fails to listen to repeated bitchings of its users soon finds itself in decline. It will be neat to see Microsoft join the ranks of the has-beens in the IT field.
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>cheers
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>>According to Paul Thurrott I guess FoxPro supporters need to get a life too!
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>>See the last short take.
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>>http://www.windowsitpro.com/windowspaulthurrott/Article/ArticleID/45701/windowspaulthurrott_45701.html