this is a little confusing to me, because i've been working with .net since it came out and i always thought of it was an example of the type of good products m

this is a little confusing to me, because i've been working with .net since it came out and i always thought of it was an example of the type of good products microsoft was capable of releasing if they tried. there are certainly bad portions of the API, but i don't think it's nearly as bad as the author makes it out to be. an obscure threading bug in windows forms is not really that damning. assuming you couldn't find an equally stupid problem in swing (if even java is good enough) it's not even a relevant issue if you're not using winforms, and not everyone is.