| Microsoft not rewriting their products in .NET? |
"Of course I still find this incredibly ironic. Microsoft insists on re-using it's own source code, and even given the ease with which they can step into Managed C++, they still preserve their existing code rather than go through the time and expense of shifting to .NET. Yet for their customers, millions of VB developers, they abandon them and leave them no choice. Funny how there's one rule for Microsoft's source code and yet another for their customers."Quoting Bill.
I see the same push from Microsoft to port for us C programmers as well. As best as I can determine Microsoft has no intention of porting their own code away from unmanaged C / C++, but they are certainly applying a lot of pressure onto ISVs to do just this. The other thing that an ISV has to bear in mind is that a port makes you inherently less competitive -- you end up spending a bunch of engineering effort to recreate your current product, instead of adding those new features that the customers have been asking for.
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