[Resolute Conservative]

Well sadly over 70% ( if not more ) of the business world runs MS compatible products and since my employer wants to get money from those businesses I am regulated to writing code for MS machines and use MS tools to write that code. I equate MS to politics. It would be nice to be able to work on something else but in reality it isn’t happening anytime soon, at least before I retire in about 15 years.

I spent time over the years working on a Unix box wanting to write fat client apps and almost starved to death.

[Knitebane]

Well sadly over 70% ( if not more ) of the business world runs MS compatible products and since my employer wants to get money from those businesses I am regulated to writing code for MS machines and use MS tools to write that code. I equate MS to politics. It would be nice to be able to work on something else but in reality it isn’t happening anytime soon, at least before I retire in about 15 years.

You have my sympathy.

It sucks to be stuck in MS world. But you should be fine. I mean, whoever heard of a software company being the undisputed leader and then going away?

Now I have to get back to my Ashton-Tate DB4 and my Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets.