In the olden days Microsoft was a company that made these really cool programming languages. Microsoft had good motivation to make cool tools because it brought programmers into the Windows fold and by default made them Windows evangelists. Although my first programming experiences were on a unpopular platform called MSX, which was a Microsoft initiative somewhat popular in Europe at the time. I really got into Visual Basic after a tip by a programmer friend. Visual Basic was cool, you could draw a button and then add events to it. It just seemed to make sense how it worked and the principles...

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Initially I was against the Microsoft Yahoo deal that is raging right now. It angered me that Microsoft was intending to spend 44 billion dollars on a company that I feel is a pile of rancid crap. A short time ago I changed my mind however because I am hoping that Microsoft will spend so much money on this deal that it will ultimately contribute to their demise. Why would I want Microsoft to die? Because they are no longer a technology leader and we need new blood in the computer technology industry. As long as Microsoft is around we will stay mired in legacy technologies that have run out of...

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Like father, like son.

What is up with Microsoft? I also want to know what is up with Bill Gates? Bill, you used to be a cool dude. I know that maybe you and Steve were college buddies. Maybe he was your only buddy, who knows. Did he protect you from getting dumped in trash cans head first? I am trying to figure out where the loyalty is because this monkey is setting to ruin the company you spent so long building. Really Bill, we all know Steve has zero technical talent where you were a code warrior once upon a time. Steve is more like the angry parent who yells at the coach when his child doesn’t get to...