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If you are serious about your career path as software engineer stay away from windows technologies.

• abrudtkuhl 12y ago
  why? seems to be a fine choice for tens of thousands of devs
  • li2 12y ago
    yes, it is fine to be a janitor as well for thousands of thousands of people. Would you like to be one of them?
    • Swinx43 12y ago
      Your troll-craft is weak. For your own sake move to another platform where such blatant attempts at trolling might yield a response.
    • UK-AL 12y ago
      You really didn't answer his question?
    • guiomie 12y ago
      This is the third comment I read from you on this page, and you really are useless to this community. Go back to your school books.
• Swinx43 12y ago
  I would most definitely like to also know why? There are many developers that work using Microsoft technology, everyone organisation does not build their services or products on open source.
  • li2 12y ago
    Look at some job descriptions of some cool companies facebook/google... Do you see a simple word being related with windows technologies?
    • UK-AL 12y ago
      Because they are built on Linux? Fair few good companies built on .net Stackoverflow for one. I agree they tend to be hidden behind the scenes companies. But those companies can be nice companies to work for(Sane work hours, good benefits, not expected to work overtime etc).
      • rbanffy 12y ago
        > Stackoverflow for one. That's no longer completely true. While the core continues to run on Windows, SQL Server and .NET, pretty much everything around it is Linux-based and without that additions, the system would be unable to maintain its current performance.
        • UK-AL 12y ago
          As far i'm aware that's the caching software. .NET is performant(And probably faster) than the common open source platforms like python, php, ruby. Any platform would have problems without caching.
        • wfjackson 12y ago
          I remember they had to patch the OpenSSL bug so they are not using IIS for the SSL endpoint.
    • Guvante 12y ago
      [Blizzard Entertainment uses .NET](http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id=13000CE http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id...) Unless you don't consider Blizzard a cool company. Not to mention Microsoft itself.
    • BSousa 12y ago
      I shouldn't feed a troll but, look at job descriptions from banks/insurance companies/science/education/betting/automative/health based companies. Do you see a simple word being related to rails? ps: I know of some that do, most don't, and they pay a LOT more than all the 'cool' companies.
  • cafard 12y ago
    Perhaps he means "solemn" rather than serious.
• Goosey 12y ago
  Luckily .NET is no longer a windows technology.
  • tomp 12y ago
    Technically, Windows is no longer a windows technology, since Wine exists, but still it's mostly windows. Can you even run Visual Studio on another platform?
    • Aaronontheweb 12y ago
      Visual Studio is still pretty dependent on Win32 / x86 under the hood - a lot of the UI was ported to WPF and more of the tooling, including the compiler, is being ported to C#. So no, I think VS for Mac / Linux is still a ways off. They're moving in that direction though - wouldn't be surprised if they bought Xamarin in order to make it happen.
  • rbanffy 12y ago
    Microsoft is still the one leading .NET, defining what .NET is and what technologies it includes (and which it doesn't). While Mono is a nice subset that runs on non-Microsoft OSs, .NET is pretty much a Microsoft-centric technology. You don't need to go further than the recent announcements and the excitement they generated among .NET users to see how dependent on Microsoft they are. It's Microsoft's show to run.