Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Apr 2007 20:58 UTC, submitted by rx182
Paul Thurrot writes about Windows XP SP3: "If you were looking for any glimpse into the mind of Microsoft, this is it: the company has completely abandoned Windows XP, and it has absolutely no plans to ever ship an XP SP3. My guess is that Microsoft will do what it did with the final Windows 2000 Service Pack: claim years later that it's no longer needed and just ship a final security patch roll-up. This is the worst kiss-off to any Microsoft product I've ever seen, and you'd think the company would show a little more respect to its best-selling OS of all time."
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I happen to develop for .NET on both Windows and Linux. I find it odd that you now talk about how Linux is not ready for the "non-Enterprise." Eclipse can be used in a corporate or non-corporate environment. BTW if I am not mistaken you mean .NET 3.5? .NET 3.0 is released, but without an appropriate IDE it is pretty much buggered. And with Orcas distributed is .NET 3.5, but C# 3.0.
Equating good with new is also a bad idea. If you want to talk about new API's then you by comparing WPF you are in fact talking about old API's since WPF is like XUL, and XUL has been around for ages. For the other stuff like Web Services, and Communications .NET 3.5 is pretty darn complicated and I question if it is better.
Ok so if I program C# and .NET why am I dissing it? Because I write Ajax front ends with ASP.NET back ends using REST and sometimes SOAP. Wonderful architecture and it works extremely well.
BTW I also don't agree that Vista is a failure. Vista is a fine piece of software that nobody needs. XPSP2 is about what most people need, and that is the problem that Microsoft is facing.