Entice Designer 0.8.2 release
Sean Kelly
sean at f4.ca
Tue Apr 24 06:43:00 PDT 2007
Daniel Keep wrote:
>
> Also, as a programmer, I'm seriously pissed off with the new stuff in
> Vista. I mean, first they bring out .NET with SWForms, then almost
> immediately deprecate it for WPF. How long before they bring out
> something else new that I need to re-learn? Bugger it; I'm sticking to
> cross platform toolkits from now on, no exceptions.
But Microsoft has always done this. It's one reason my Win32 apps look
like Unix apps at the code level. I have no interest in chasing
technologies that will be obsolete six months later.
> Finally is the fact that anything Vista can do, Linux can already do,
> and do it better. I mean, the marketing push for Vista has been "The
> Wow starts Now": have you ever seen Beryl? That thing completely blows
> Vista and OSX out of the water in terms of how shiny it is.
Ubuntu is fantastic. The only reason I still use Windows at all is for
game playing and the fact that I hate dual booting. But I don't have
any plans to upgrade past XP. From here I'll either get a mac or
install Linux.
Sean
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