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> It's not just .NET that you're choosing; you're also choosing Windows servers, IIS, Visual Studio, etc. That's accurate as far as Microsoft has every incenti
by jcromartie 15y ago
> It's not just .NET that you're choosing; you're also choosing Windows servers, IIS, Visual Studio, etc.
That's accurate as far as Microsoft has every incentive for it to be true. Microsoft developed .NET to promote the future of Windows and to compete with the JVM and other cross-platform VMs. As far as I know, they are competing with Mono.
- narrator 15y agoThat's the thing about Microsoft. It's lack of compatibility with the non-Microsoft world means that if you just "want it to work" you have to go all Microsoft. The side effect of just wanting it to work is that eventually the whole infrastructure of the company gets dragged into the Microsoft nickel-and-diming machine and the relentless upgrade treadmill. They make you pay license fees every year for unnecessary upgrades that just move the menus around and often break applications.