On Wednesday 27 February 2002 7:07 pm, you wrote:
Microsoft released their Visual C# .NET & Visual Studio .NET products last week. You can download the runtime for NT4.0SP6, 2K, XP but I would rather start under SuSE than develop under Linux and test on NT4.0.
I must've missed that announcement on account of having very little interest. ;) I am considerably less than astonished, though, that the great visionary's common language/platform thing is only available for Windows. It's just as predicted: Microsoft will tune their technologies to work best and work first with Windows. They don't have any interest in doing anything else. Honestly, .NET will become the new Windows development API. I can't see any other platform taking it seriously. Anyone who wants true cross platform abilities will continue to use Java or Perl or C++/Qt and so on. If you want to learn .NET technologies as a career move, then do so. Just don't assume you'll be able to do it under anything but Windows. -- 8:33am up 15 days, 13 min, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.08, 0.05