So I follow a lot of people who follow Microsoft. Up until recently, I brought home the bacon doing .NET programming. There's money to be made doing that, so why not be the guy getting paid?
As much as I bitch about Windows and Visual Studio and MSDN and Microsoft, seriously, you can do a lot worse. (Or maybe Eclipse doesn't make me want to claw my own eyes out anymore? Doubtful, if the website is any indication.)
And I think .NET is a good enough platform to code for, assuming you're doing "boring business programming" anyway, and all the line-of-business employees have Windows on the desktop.
But I still have a fairly low inclination to be in on the community there. I view new tech coming out of Microsoft as "oh great another thing to deal with" instead of cool new shit. Sticking with NUnit instead of going to MSTest in the VS2005 days, for instance, good idea.
Aaaaaanyway, the news on the MSTwitosphere today was that someone named Don Dodge
got laid off. This was generally considered a bad move on MS's part, but I've never heard of this guy. Granted, I don't pay attention to the "community", but still, the name never floated past. Maybe "...holds an MBA...and a BS in accounting..." has something to do with it?
Feel free to leave a comment telling me that I should have heard of this guy / he's one of the good guys / etc.
Fake Steve Jobs
does his thing.
Update: I was informed over Twitter that he was responsible for the "BizSpark" program, which gives cheap MS licenses to startup companies. The analogy here is both obvious and left as an exercise for the reader.