Re: [DotGNU]Paying attention

[tali streit]

Ron Burk wrote:

> Microsoft succeeds not so much by betting the farm
> but by being willing to abandon their current bet at the
> drop of a hat if they see something better come
> along. Thus, they typically do accumulate wins
> (by abandoning losers quickly) and the illusion of
> greater success than they've actually had. Windows
> programmers (the ones who have to actually get work
> done, not the ones you will generally read about in
> magazines) have largely learned to read and wait
> for a few years or *longer* to see whether the
> Next New Thing from MS is actually going to stick
> or be canned.

I have worked for the last 8 years as a professional c++ programmer 
under windows. I can tell you that the above statement is very true! 
take a historical journey through MSDN and you will find that 90% of the 
things heralded as the NextBestThing flop.

any experienced ms development team will wait before jumping on board. 
those companies that have jumped too early found themselves up a dead end.

in the words of john carmack (id software) "...it takes microsoft a 
while before they get something right..."

> I can find many Windows
> programmers who have much less faith in .NET's
> likelihood of success than the folks in this group,
> which strikes me as slightly surreal :-).

heheh. that is very true.

at the moment most ms people i know seem to have a "lets wait and see if 
this .NET thing is anything more then another hairbrain temporary 
obsession" attitude.

lets use that to our advantage!