I use OS X Lion, which runs Cubase/Sibelius/Notion SLE very reliably. The OS X machine is connected via crossover to a Windows 7 machine which acts as a VST (Virtual Studio Technology) server and audio mixing software console. In order to have this nice little setup, I need to run the Vienna Ensemble Pro client VST in Cubase, and the the Vienna Ensemble Pro server on the Windows 7 machine. None of the software I've mentioned above is available for Linux. Oh, and I'm also a senior .NET Dev professionally and Windows is a must if I want to do any work at home (I refuse to run Windows/VS 2010 in a virtualized environment, plus, I'd still need windows). I also play around with a lot c++/opengl/sdl dev stuff, which can be done on any operating systems, but I prefer Visual Studio 2010 as my C++ IDE. VST support (without using wrappers/emulators), Visual Studio and the Vienna Symphonic software are what is truly keeping Windows on any of my partitions. Which just made me wonder, why am I still running Windows 7 on my living room media PC? I'll have to redo that box with Ubuntu soon.

This is coming from the bone-heads that created Notes, which is the most cumbersome email software I've ever used. Also, I categorize emails, such as "Funny", "Reference" etc. Searching for email specifically would assume that the person who sent the email placed enough information in the subject and body for their crappy indexing to catalogue.

Most people don't know how to work with Windows as you do, therefore, who cares how much you can strip it down or change it. People want clean fast, non bloated usable OS, a platform that can be interacted with and developed for easily, not something they can take apart, fix and tailor to their needs.

I don't like this tiles approach, I don't constantly need to see the weather, I don't constantly need to see stocks or news on my screen. These tiles have processes that are going run all the time (even if tiled mode uses fewer resources). Stupid approach, a shitty attempt to spray paint and decorate a bloated old rusty OS. When I installed OS X Snow Leopard on my system, I think it ended up freeing close to 2 GB on my system (upgrade from Leopard) and things started running faster. On the other hand, MS decides to keep Windows in the background and runs some crappy touch-screen tailored (wtf?) tile based frontend, rather than focusing more polishing and optimizing their OS. Being a .NET for a bunch of years now, I'm very happy with their developer products, I wish their Windows team(s) would finally release something to impress just as much.

The only difference I've seen is in the adhesive used to hold the ends together. I've had a cable melt from the heat of my PS3 , so slightly bending the cable caused the end to fall apart.

Can someone give me a few examples as to how visual studio in itself forces bad habits upon you? I've been using visual studio for a long time, and I find alot of the features to simply be useful. Regardless of what what language I'm programming in, it doesn't "force" anything bad on me. I think people write bad code because they are bad programmers. As for the guy who wrote about his son. The KID is NOT a programmer, did you expect him to be using perfect design patterns and a strict OO aproach !?!? Didn't you say he started taking programming courses AFTER he got visual studio ? Also, VS is just a fancy IDE, what YOU type in the "white area" is all up to you, I doubt IntelliSense and code-hiding are making your code bad. I think VB is what you guys should be complaining about.