Question

[jermaine]

Is it possible to make anything better then existing microsoft software?
considering microsoft made .net?

[iPrank]

Anything you make is ALWAYS BETTER than Microsoft softwares.

[mendhak]

It's possible if you've got a team of talented developers, business strategists, etc.

.NET is not a software, it is an architecture for development.

[ComputerJy]

Is it possible to make anything better then existing microsoft software?
considering microsoft made .net?

You haven't tried Linux or Solaris, have you?

[jermaine]

no solaris crashed my pc.
and thanks for the replies. I was just asking cause i have heard some people say they dont use vb net because the programs you make will never be better then microsofts.

just askin
thanks

[Hack]

no solaris crashed my pc.
and thanks for the replies. I was just asking cause i have heard some people say they dont use vb net because the programs you make will never be better then microsofts.

just askin
thanks

Microsoft made the development platform of VB.NET for people to use to create software for private, corporate and commerical use, so I don't understand this comment, or position, at all.

[jermaine]

thanks,
i did read it off a message board, kinda full of microsoft haters.(i think)
I just wanted to see if some comments were true

[Shaggy Hiker]

The comment arises from a bizarre misuse of logic. Some kind of feeling that anything built on Microsoft can't be better than Microsoft. Perhaps a belief that a building is only as good as its foundation. However, code doesn't actually work that way. Code is just a tool. A building may not be better than its foundation, but it is neither better nor worse than the hammer that was used to build it. The two can't be rationally compared. Unfortunately, that never stopped anyone.

[jermaine]

thanks for the replys

[Hack]

The comment arises from a bizarre misuse of logic. Some kind of feeling that anything built on Microsoft can't be better than Microsoft. Perhaps a belief that a building is only as good as its foundation. However, code doesn't actually work that way. Code is just a tool. A building may not be better than its foundation, but it is neither better nor worse than the hammer that was used to build it. The two can't be rationally compared. Unfortunately, that never stopped anyone.

An apt anology!

[mendhak]

Any software is only as good as the programmers that built it.

If they, the people at your other forum, have tried to make software on an MS platform and failed at it, then they are not good programmers (in MS technologies of course). For some, such as wossname, developing on Linux may be their forte. For others, Mac. And so on.

But then, for a really good programmer, platform shouldn't matter.