“I’m probably not saying anything that hasn’t been said before
here, but I thought I’d share a few thoughts on why people seem to
be drawn to the Microsoft Way. I recently did something at the ‘day
job’ that I’ve thought about doing for a long time, but never quite
worked up the steam to follow through on, I signed up to
participate in a a Microsoft-centric project, and to learn
.NET.“I have made abortive stabs in the past to learn to code in the
Microsoft Universe. I made a stab back in the bad old COM days, but
the number of hoops I was being asked to jump through was more than
I wanted to bite off at that time. Since then, I’ve carried that
bad taste in my mouth, and resisted adding any Microsoft skill sets
to my repertoire, even though it was sometimes a gap in my
resume…”