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3 hours ago, wastingtime​withforums wrote

One of the most popular videos on Youtube right now, no joke:

 

235.000 views and 25.000 comments within a day.

That was scary and funny as heck.

https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc

here's an excerpt:

@DeathByVisualStudio: If you ignore the 2005-2009 spike, the trendline is very consistent.

48 seconds ago, wastingtime​withforums wrote

LAMP was the de-facto standard before ASP.NET even appeared. ASP.NET was taking marketshare away from it, until 2009.

No no no. Are you talking about the spike which begun around 2005? That's because some idiot at microsoft didn't understand the reasons for the trendline and decided to get EVERY PARKED DOMAIN on a Microsoft server, boosting the market share artificially which lasted for a few years.

EDIT: It seems what hurts Microsoft the most is their mangers. I predict that when the ratio of engineers/MBAs at Google will sway the Microsoft way, it will be done with also.

@wastingtimewithforums: Found the reference, 10  - 15 min (watch for about 5 minutes, tough it's all interesting):

http://vimeo.com/53237950

CAVEAT: That guy isn't  EDIT: wasn't the sharpest pencil in Microsoft, let alone in development/computers, but he seems to have inside knowledge

@wastingtimewithforums: The train that wracked IIS/ASP and ASP MVC left way before 2009, it just took some time to show on the charts.

I even heard mossyblog, which worked for MSFT (silverlight...), say that Azure was a reaction to the widespread rise of LAMP. Cannot find the reference right now, but it goes like this: MS execs, facing total domination of the LAMP stack in the hosting environment, said we have no choice but to pull our sleeves and do it ourselves. 

Here's a summary of the event:

(I'm having a blackout, cannot recall where I found this, so apologies if this was posted)

This might dispel some of the FUD:

43 minutes ago, kettch wrote

My problem with Web Forms was always that it helps you get some things done quickly and easily, but sometimes it makes minor tweaks excruciatingly hard.

*snip*

When I was using Microsoft tools, they use to say that about VB.

This reminds me of the Silverlight saga in the following sense:

SL fans were busy FUDing the entire world including Microsoft instead of just pleading with Microsoft to truly open dotnet/Silverlight.

Its the same here. Instead of pleading with Microsoft to stop suing linux/android, which i have a feeling will solve this issue, WP users are busy tarnishing Google. Good luck with that.