Please Microsoft, Stop Holding .NET Back!

As dedicated developers, end-users, and champions of Microsoft’s .NET Framework, we’re making a final plea to Microsoft and the .NET Framework team to save .NET and make it a real multi-platform framework. Please!

Sun could (and did) do it with Java, so why can’t Microsoft just swallow the pill already and provide real support for the .NET Framework on all operating systems? Yes, that includes Linux and Mac too. It’s ironic, because the .NET Framework has so much potential as a platform with its unique multi-language structure, nifty features, excellent libraries, (relatively) well-performing output, and darn-good innovative technologies like LINQ coming-up and XAML already here. Yet Microsoft just doesn’t realize that if they truly want .NET to succeed, they’ll have to bite the bullet and stop pretending that only officially supporting Windows won’t make users leave Linux/Mac/BSD/Whatever and buy licenses for Windows instead.

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Vista’s (Ridiculous) Revenge

Apparently Windows Vista saw our last post – it’s trying to get even! What kind of crazy sociapath of an operating system is this!?!

Not even minutes after we blogged about WGA giving us trouble, explorer.exe crashed. After some CPR, a bit of mouth-to-mouth (it was disgusting!), and plenty of swearing, explorer.exe was successfully revived… Until we minimized Visual Studio to grab a file off the desktop and saw this:

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