I've just got emails from Microsoft confirming that I am now an MCSE and an MSDBA. It looks like you get a bit better stuff from this that just MCP - possibly free MSDN subscription for a year. It's not quite clear from the mail but they promise they've sent me a welcome pack which has the full details (and my badge :) ) so we'll soon see.
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Date: April 19th, 2002 02:27 am (UTC)From:I have *never* found a development enviroment that I like using other than text editors. That's not even an anti-Microsoft thing really, although most of the one's I've tried have been MS - even in Dreamweaver I never use the GUI except for previewing. It seems to be something in the way my brain is wired - I just can't seem to get the hang of them.
Possibly it's a manifestation of my control-freak nature.
On the products front, I'm mixed. I like using Win2k because, thanks to the training courses, I know it like the back of my hand and I can see that it makes a reasonable compromise between fending off users who don't know what they're doing and allowing those who do to turn those bits off (although the security is still a little lacking) and things like SQL server seem to be quite good from my limited experience (they work fine for me) but I hate Word with a passion. And Powerpoint. Everything is so fiddly! I usually end up writing documents and presentations in HTML because I haven't got the energy to force Word/PP to do what I want.
The other thing which concerns me with Microsoft is their attempts to gain hegemony over everything. I realise that this is natural behaviour for a company in a capitalist society but it is also recognised by society through competition and monopolies legislation that it's rarely a good thing for the consumer if one company controls the whole of a market, leading to higher prices and less innovation (similar to the way you often find that you get much farther with a problem if you discuss it with another person - their ideas/actions spark things in you which might not otherwise have arrived). It's been shown in both nature and business that diversity ends up being much stronger than mono-cultures and I hope that governments continue to restrain Microsofts efforts to create a mono-culture.
Wow. That turned out to be longer than I expected!