But why is being parochial in an MS world a bad thing? It's a bad thing because the MS world has traditionally been cut off from the best ideas and even the be

But why is being parochial in an MS world a bad thing? It's a bad thing because the MS world has traditionally been cut off from the best ideas and even the best mainstream ideas around software. When I snapped out of my dogmatic slumber as an MS dev I was shocked at how much I had been missing and how much better my work got when informed by the computing world as a whole. Although my knowledge, like most people's, is still partial and fragmented, nevertheless this was a real and very valuable state change. So I can't help but respectfully suggest that if you want to grow as a software person, you should probably seek something equivalent in your own path. It's not a question of breadth vs. depth. It's a question of a pond vs. the ocean.