<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Martin Naef <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mnaef@navisto.ch">mnaef@navisto.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>It's definitely worth taking a closer look into the Windows developer<br>
eco-system again. It has improved vastly since the 90's, particularly<br>
with things like .net and WPF and the associated tools (e.g. Visual<br>
Studio for coding and Expression for the UI design).<br>
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As a developer, I am also glad that I can rely on the APIs being<br>
stable. Where MS introduces new features and concepts (e.g. WPF,<br>
managed code etc.) there is always a bridge to the old world that is<br>
not overly painful to cross when needed (right now I'm doing DirectX<br>
10.1 development in a managed environment - it wasn't designed for<br>
that, but it works nicely...). Other vendors (let them be unnamed...)<br>
have developed a reputation of breaking thing even between minor OS<br>
releases - I'd rather not go there as a developer...<br>
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Martin</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Again, I want to echo Martin. Things have improved a lot, and I actually *enjoy* working with my Windows 7 desktop at work. Everything pretty much just *works*, and I dont find myself chasing down weird behaviors near as much as I used to.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I want to get windows 7 at home, but I dont want to disrupt my primary music machine in the middle of recording two projects for release.</div><div><br></div><div>Tony </div></div>