Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Apr 2006 19:00 UTC
Proponents of the free and open-source software development model are using the recently announced delays in the shipping of Microsoft's Windows Vista and Office 2007 products as an example of how the company's software engineering process simply does not work well. They are also pointing to how it stands in direct contrast with the way software gets developed in the free and open-source community, and using the delays to explain why theirs is the better choice.
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2005-07-06
What is even more glaring, is the fact that MS and its shills touts the ease and speed of development of Visual Studio and .NET, and how MS tools help productivity, and yet, the FOSS crowd speeds along in development with their inferior tools, while MS had to scrap its project to use mostly managed code, and is amazingly late on its next OS release.
Operating System development is a completely different ballgame. Visual Studio itself was not the problem at all. It had nothing to do with any problems Windows Development had or has. .Net just isn't cut out to be used at such a low level for an OPERATING SYSTEM, but that does not make it inferior or any less of a framework.
Development in Visual Studio and .NET IS easy and IS fast and CAN make you a lot more productive. I'm sorry, but no FOSS IDE holds a candle to Visual Studio, yet. This coming from someone who used KDevelop for 6 months (in late 2004/early 2005).
Edited 2006-04-06 15:50