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I'm Ryan Lowe, a Software Engineering graduate living in Ottawa, Canada. I like agile software development and Ruby on Rails.
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Microsoft Tightening the Feedback Loop
A representative from Microsoft read my rant about features lacking in Visual Studio .NET and sent me an email, assuring me that most of the problems were fixed in the next version which is code-named Whidbey. He even offered to send me a beta copy of Whidbey so I could check it out for myself. I tell you what, I'm impressed. Competing against an open source, free (as in beer) and community driven product like Eclipse is going to be a tough job. They are paying attention to us. It's a great time for developers, developers, developers. Posted at November 27, 2003 at 02:42 PM ESTLast updated November 27, 2003 at 02:42 PM EST Comments
Wow. Nice. Are you going to take them up on the offer for a Whidbey preview? I'd be all over that.. :) , but then again, as you've said, I am drinking the Microsoft kool-aid! » Posted by: Peter at November 27, 2003 08:57 PMYep, I definitely took them up on it. If Visual Studio .NET gets better, so will Eclipse. Competition is great for developers using either product. » Posted by: Ryan at November 27, 2003 10:14 PM |
