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The MS-centric press does seem a little insular sometimes -- more Mount Athos than United States in some occasions. All the recent Silverlight hype ("the Intern
by hernan7 19y ago
The MS-centric press does seem a little insular sometimes -- more Mount Athos than United States in some occasions. All the recent Silverlight hype ("the Internet has just been rebooted by Microsoft!"). Or the articles trying to convince people to upgrade their PCs to MS's latest OS -- I have been reading those since Windows 95.
(I'm sure there were magazine articles pushing DOS v5.1 back in the day, but I didn't have money to buy computer magazines at the time.)
- meatpeople 19y agoI'd agree about the insularity of the press and community around the MS ecosystem. I got a job programming blub in VB.Net straight out of college and am writing C# at the moment. I don't have anything to back it up but I have always found a general suspicion of anything that didn't come from MS or an related source. The obvious example would be formerly non-mainstream programming features which are now getting very popular with C# 3. It reminds me of Joel Spolskys' idea about the 'Five Worlds' - MS stuff, Java stuff, Unix etc - that they all come with fairly distinct cultures.