The most important thing is not how easy it is to build code, the most important thing is how well the code runs once it is built. This concept seems to have escaped the Longhorn developers, and from this viewpoint Longhorn and its underlying technologies are pretty unexciting.Microsoft knows what really drives decisions about Operating System choices. As with much of the IT world, the users have little to do with it: programmers and managers are the ones making the real decisions.Remember, the audience for the PDC was professional developers. We build code that other people pay to use. It might take five people six months to build an application that thousands of people use every day for years. What's more important, the experience those five people had for six months (and the fact that it took them six months instead of four), or the experience those thousands of people will have for years?
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Posted by johndan at November 20, 2003 10:13 PM
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