He has also contributed to several Microsoft Professional Certification exams. State your opinion on the Talk to the Editors discussion area on The Development Exchange. D ebate continues to rage about the relative importance and significant features of various tools in Visual Studio. And, just as you can't buy an iceberg, you can't buy a .NET either. Microsoft's strategy seems predicated upon the idea that a great development tool can drive the adoption of a new platform.
History suggests otherwise.
NEXT was great for developers, but it failed. My experience has been that, if a developer needs to accomplish something specific, he or she uses the best available tool. Ironically, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Many .NET features address specific user and administrator problems. And, for those applications that must be internationalized, the .NET Framework's built-in globalization support and approach to resource localization make it more feasible to develop localized applications.