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Consiglio vivamente la lettura di questo post su CodingHorror e cito solo alcune parti:

I’ve spent the bulk of the last fifteen years developing some amount of reputation and expertise in the Microsoft universe, having published dozens of books and hundreds of articles, worked as an editor and consultant, written (as a subcontractor) parts of various Microsoft products, and so on. I’m also the editor of the Larkware site, which tracks news in the Microsoft software world for developers.Unfortunately, over that time I’ve also come to the conclusion that, even though it is staffed largely by smart and ethical people, Microsoft itself represents a grave threat to the future of software development through its increasing inclination to stifle competition through legal shenanigans. Its recent attempt to claim that no one can implement a user interface that looks anything like the Office 2007 ribbon without licensing some nebulous piece of intellectual property represents a new low in this regard.

I’m in a bit of a bind. Unlike fifteen years ago, I’ve got a family, including four kids, and I can’t afford to just walk out on a career that brings in good money. But I rather desperately want to find an alternative. This blog will record some of my explorations as I hunt around in other corners of the software world, trying to decide if there’s a viable business plan for me that can include weaning myself off of Microsoft software.

e poi….

I can understand where Mike is coming from. Microsoft releases new technology at a blistering pace, and keeping up– not to mention dealing with all the obsolete baggage you’re carrying around– is half the challenge. Just take a look at the stack I have to install on my development machine to do development work in .NET 3.0:

Windows Vista
Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer (source control)
Orcas Extensions for Visual Studio 2005 (WPF & WCF project templates)
SQL Server Express SP2
Visual Studio 2005 SP1
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Vista
ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0
Expression Blend

Historically, I’ve used Microsoft development environments because they made my life easier.