I don’t know about you all but I can’t wait for Windows 7. I enjoy Vista as it is now; at least since I discovered the faulty RAM … that reminds me I’m sorry Vista! I saw the tech previews, the .Net 4.0 inklings, entity frameworks, multi-touch user interactivity, and the new and improved Visual Studio. Man, talk about drooling, and the whole video has me in complete rapture over the idea of getting my hands on it, not to mention some free time to play, and I couldn’t help but think. Microsoft is awesome. People call it a monopoly and say how open-source is so much better. Open-source is nice, I’ll give you that, but I make my money building tools/systems for Microsoft products and services. I couldn’t make my money anywhere else, and not to mention I wouldn’t want to.
I don’t even think it’s about making money. I wake up day to day and I go to work, I open my Windows XP notebook, and I open visual studio to another day of building something new. If I wanted to build something open-source I can, if I don’t then that is just fine too. I can build away all day, and I enjoy it. I don’t like when things don’t work, but that is half the enjoyment later in the years of easily recognizing oops mistakes. We have a large community of .Net developers, most of whom like to help each other out, and we have ways to grow and build. We have certifications, we have user groups, we have operating systems, office tools, frameworks, easy api access, and years of developers who came before us that are eager to tell us how things work.
How much better can it get? Well watch the PDC and you’ll see things are going to get so much sweeter, with functional interactive environments, and really jazzy UI programs and plug-ins. Man, every time I see something new from Microsoft like this I get energized again and again on how much I really love computers. It’s great to be a developer in this day in age.
As an aside though if you watch the video there is a lady who really enjoys saying 'super easy' a lot. I guess instead of going 'um' this lady started thinking 'super easy' was a good way to pause between thoughts before explaining where she was going with whatever functionality she was supposed to present. Just an FYI note there as it gets kind of distracting.
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