.NET will be the downfall of Microsoft Windows
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| This seems minor. But the effect is mathematical. Lets say a .NET
| version takes 5 seconds longer to load. If you have 20 .NET processes
| loading at startup it means Windows will take 100 seconds longer to
| finish than the equivalent processes under Mac OS X. This means from
| this point on Windows will always be at a competitive speed and
| memory disadvantage when compared to OS X, or even Linux.
|
| [...]
|
| I bet if I loaded Linux on this thing I would find the exact same to
| be true. So you see. It has already started. Little ole me - Microsoft
| fan boy - switched simply because the pain of Windows churn (.NET
| induced I theorize) was so great it forced me to something else.
| That pain will cost Microsoft.
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http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2007/04/net-will-be-downfall-of-microsoft.html
Related:
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| Look at the wishlist which de Icaza mentioned in the interview - he
| wants a technical deal between Mono and .NET and wants Microsoft to
| recommend Mono to developers looking at migration. Sure. A company
| which is trying to push its own operating systems into every possible
| nook and corner, and facing some resistance from Linux, is definitely
| going to be inclined to recommend something that will take people away
| from its own O-S and help them move to one with which it is doing
| battle. Excellent logic there, Miguel! These crackpot arguments are
| exactly why I think there is something much more sinister in the
| Novell-Microsoft deal, something that is intimately connected with
| Mono. It is high time that the whole story was told.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091
Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic
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| Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a
| poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research
| company Evans Data.
|
| [...]
|
| Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves
| during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any
| other development language, according to a recently published
| survey.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600515
Study: Developers Favor Linux
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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
|
| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2006
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| Java 20.400%
| C 17.198%
| C++ 11.055%
| (Visual) Basic 9.470%
| PHP 9.209%
| Perl 6.228%
| Python 3.641%
| C# 3.023%
| JavaScript 2.310%
| Delphi 2.252%
| SAS 2.210%
| Ruby 1.717%
| PL/SQL 1.223%
| D 0.684%
| ABAP 0.637%
| Lisp/Scheme 0.586%
| COBOL 0.564%
| Ada 0.546%
| Pascal 0.516%
| Visual FoxPro 0.431%
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http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index
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