Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 70.240.202.105]
on November 25, 2007 03:27 AM
For a minute I thought I was the only one noticing this. I have also noticed that CIS/MIS grads have become more attractive under this "train, not teach" initiative by MS. They are able to quickly build applications as long as it doesn't deviate from the drag and drop capabilities of Visual Studio or the framework structure of ASP.net for example. But some of them will run from a conversation on general programming or alternative technologies like the plague. When forced to build their own software architecture some of them are lost.
I have run into some that literally had no knowledge of anything non Microsoft like a so called web developer that was shocked to find that Apache led the web server market by far. I worked in an all MS shop once where a project would come to a dead halt if MS did not have a solution for a problem. Show them an alternative and they'd come up with every excuse in the book to avoid even considering it. And MS plays into this well. I have taken note of how they take existing ideas from other products and rename them and the MS faithful drool all over the shiny new toys. They have no clue that it has been done before because they don't know anything outside of MS. I could only laugh at their excitement behind anything MS released.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 70.240.202.105] on November 25, 2007 03:27 AMI have run into some that literally had no knowledge of anything non Microsoft like a so called web developer that was shocked to find that Apache led the web server market by far. I worked in an all MS shop once where a project would come to a dead halt if MS did not have a solution for a problem. Show them an alternative and they'd come up with every excuse in the book to avoid even considering it. And MS plays into this well. I have taken note of how they take existing ideas from other products and rename them and the MS faithful drool all over the shiny new toys. They have no clue that it has been done before because they don't know anything outside of MS. I could only laugh at their excitement behind anything MS released.
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