posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 9:38 PM
by
demiliani
MS too much Longhorn focused?
I wrote about this some times ago but today the posts of Greg Robinson and Robert Chartier points me to the same argument: the comunity is too much Longhorn (or Whidbey) focused.
I agree that the future is interesting and fascinating, that we must be prepared for the future of .NET programing etc., but in these month if you buy a programming journal like MSDN what you can see? Whidbey articles, Longhorn articles, Avalon etc.
But the present?? Why not writing about the actual development platform? We've to work with this NOW! Personally I agree with Greg... I'm tired to see articles with contents like writing a windows form application on Whidbey and see that the "Hello World" is better for eyes than with VS2003...
I think that a real interesting technical article must talk about the present technology, not only about the future... 
UPDATE: I've forgot to say that just this morning I've wrote on my Italian .NET User Group a post about the next TechTalk 2004 here in Italy... 640€ for conferences that for 80% talks about introduction to Longhorn, introduction to Indigo, introduction to Avalon etc. Maybe too much??