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Well, it appears that in both cases you were wrong. IE still has higher market share than Firefox, with Chrome being the clear leader it seems (though some usag

Well, it appears that in both cases you were wrong. IE still has higher market share than Firefox, with Chrome being the clear leader it seems (though some usage stats may show otherwise). Even today, Microsoft is far far more important than Google for their users - not necessarily developers. If Google disappeared tomorrow, yes it would make it a bit difficult to work in the short term, but people will manage. If Windows / Offce were to say, vanish tomorrow, then millions of businesses will just collapse and cannot function at all.

icantthinkofone 12y ago
I didn't say Firefox would be the leader. The internet is bigger than Microsoft and, on the internet, no one cares about Microsoft. Rather than edit what I said, I'll add here. I guarantee what I said about .NET.
- nbevans 12y ago
  Loyalties are cheap on the internet. You can say "no one cares about X". Just look at all the companies that switch between AWS and Azure these days whenever one or the other has an outage. Microsoft is making aggressive moves now. .NET is a technically superior platform to almost anything else out there. True developers tend to gravitate towards what is the best. To see where .NET is heading you really need to look at Xamarin. You act like you are the only one to have made those original predictions (re: IE declining market share, and iPhone being a big shake up to the status quo of the time). You weren't. Nobody else apart from you seems to be acting so blasé about predicting the death of .NET. To the contrary, most are thinking on the opposite end of the spectrum. F# is gaining a large amount of traction now (just look at its advance on the TIOBE index). As is Xamarin. As is Azure. Java is dying a slow death at the hands of Oracle. None of the recent "improvements" to its core language were done correctly . Just look at their type erasure of generics. And their bastardised implementation of lambda expressions. .NET will serve as a natural destination for all those increasingly alienated developers and companies using the Java stack.
  - icantthinkofone 12y ago
    Obviously you weren't around in 2003.
    - nbevans 12y ago
      I was. Cheeky fucker.
      - icantthinkofone 12y ago
        Obviously you weren't.
        cwills 12y ago
        Obviously you are a fool
        icantthinkofone 12y ago
        You're right but at least I'm not stupid.

icantthinkofone 12y ago

I didn't say Firefox would be the leader. The internet is bigger than Microsoft and, on the internet, no one cares about Microsoft. Rather than edit what I said, I'll add here. I guarantee what I said about .NET.

nbevans 12y ago
Loyalties are cheap on the internet. You can say "no one cares about X". Just look at all the companies that switch between AWS and Azure these days whenever one or the other has an outage. Microsoft is making aggressive moves now. .NET is a technically superior platform to almost anything else out there. True developers tend to gravitate towards what is the best. To see where .NET is heading you really need to look at Xamarin. You act like you are the only one to have made those original predictions (re: IE declining market share, and iPhone being a big shake up to the status quo of the time). You weren't. Nobody else apart from you seems to be acting so blasé about predicting the death of .NET. To the contrary, most are thinking on the opposite end of the spectrum. F# is gaining a large amount of traction now (just look at its advance on the TIOBE index). As is Xamarin. As is Azure. Java is dying a slow death at the hands of Oracle. None of the recent "improvements" to its core language were done correctly . Just look at their type erasure of generics. And their bastardised implementation of lambda expressions. .NET will serve as a natural destination for all those increasingly alienated developers and companies using the Java stack.
- icantthinkofone 12y ago
  Obviously you weren't around in 2003.
  - nbevans 12y ago
    I was. Cheeky fucker.
    - icantthinkofone 12y ago
      Obviously you weren't.
      - cwills 12y ago
        Obviously you are a fool
        icantthinkofone 12y ago
        You're right but at least I'm not stupid.