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You have 8 years of Microsoft development experience that's pretty decent and I bet this will bring you a lot of good jobs because many companies are using Microsoft technologies even the crappy ones (VB.Net, Classic VB).

However you are absolutely right about Microsoft. Yeah they doing good lately but from which standpoint? Microsoft has a really bad reputation under hackers and I think the reason is not that we all love Apple and Mac's. No, I think those reasons become clear if you look at what Microsoft is doing all the time, what are they implementing, how are they implementing new technologies.

For example Internet Explorer 9. This time Microsoft has to be really good cause they are losing market share month after month. And luckily Microsoft did understand that and they are doing good with Internet Explorer 9 but again they are making things their own way and that's what is bad about them. If Microsoft thinks it needs something they are always developing it on their own without looking what other developers are doing and how they solved those problems. No, they have always this one Microsoft solution doesn't play really good with the rest of the world (and sometimes even with Microsoft software). That's Microsoft.

However I think you are on the wrong way. If your profession is Microsoft technologies and you want to stick with that cause you have a job and you like Microsoft platforms then you should stick with it and become better and better.

But look what other developers and hackers are doing, which new thinks are coming, which things are slowly going and compared to that what is Microsoft doing. Don't turn into a developer who has a Microsoft hammer in his hands that's the worst thing you can do for the world and for your career.

I hope I could help you.

BTW: I learned programming with C#




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