Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins

blackbearnh writes to ask, "Why does Microsoft win the development environment war so often, when we all know it's a lifetime lock-in to Windows? Perhaps it's because the open source community offers too much choice." From the post: "Microsoft offers the certainty of no choices. Choice isn't always good, and the open source community sometimes offers far too many ways to skin the same cat, choices that are born more out of pride, ego, or stubbornness than a genuine need for two different paths. I won't point fingers, everyone knows examples... The reality is that there are good, practical reasons that drive people into the arms of the Redmond tool set, and we need to accept that as a fact and learn from it, rather than shake our fists and curse the darkness."

Re:It's not the choice

[Anonymous Coward]

Sigh...

It is idiotic posts like that the make us all dread these types of stories on Slashdot.

Sigh...

It is idiotic posts like this that make us all dread these types of stories on Slashdot.

Re:Choice Wins

[Anonymous Coward]

companies that think long term

Well, there's your problem.

"Long term" these days is "next quarter".

Re:I hears yah

[bug1]

I went to bottle shop the other day to buy some beer, to my surprise they had 100 different types, i really enjoyed sampling them all at the time, but today i am sick and bloated.

Just because you can have something doesnt mean you should.

Re:LMAO Non free finally wins.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm going to give all of that up right now and buy OSX, Vista, Visual Studio and half a dozen software packages that I need to get real work done on these real platforms.

Careful. With that attitude you might actually start making money.

Re:Things to learn from Windows and OSX.

[demallien2]

May His Great Noodliness banish thee to the realms of meat and three veg for yet another car anolgy. No parmesan for you!

this is why i prefer dotnet

[the0ther]

over java because with java you've got too many options. it requires you to be familiar with all of them and expert in none of them. you can't trust your software unless you've got a deep understanding of the language & the platform. it's hard enough even then!

Re:I hears yah

[Anonymous Coward]

I went to crack house the other day to buy some pussy, to my surprise they had 20 different women, all shapes and races, i really enjoyed sampling them all at the time, but today i am broke. Damn.

Just because you can have something means you should. Unless you're a cheapass.

(I like Linda best, she's a little old but she only charges ten bucks. Kind of like Linux;)