Re:They just don't get it. (Score 1)

You're kidding, right? A lot more projects get made than those programmers would make on their own - the people who pay programmers decide...

where do you work? A bank using COBOL? At high tech companies, the programmers do what they want. Yep, they're influenced by the product requirements so we see a lot of Windows, but they use C++ over C when they want to, and they use the development environment they want to, jumping to Wizard C and then Borland when it made sense, not slaves at all to Microsoft. Now we're seeing lots of Java, and even at COBOL houses. Microsoft has used its monopoly position to strangle its competition so there aren't many robust choices today, but when you look at (as I mentioned) future hardware platforms, handhelds, single chip, whatever, developers will choose what they want, and as we are seeing, it isn't turning out Windows.

I'm not encouraging anyone to linux, BTW. I'm just giving Windows drones a glimpse of what they will be using when they're Linux drones.