Since I recently installed Windows XP as a secondary operating system on my lapto I have decided to see what I may have been missing out on in the past few year of Microsoft computing. After running Windows off and on for a week or two I can safely say I haven’t been missing out on much, and I have been missing out on some key things.
By far the biggest advantage to running Windows is the variety of applications that can be run. Open Source software has really given me a greater appreciation for good software and there is a lot of crap out there for Windows. I am a little concerned that the good of Windows outways the bad (and Windows is worse than Linux, but Linux is not as good either in some key ways).
I have downloaded a little development tool called ASP Martix. It is a IDE for developing ASP.NET applications. I have to say, drag and drop development is a time saver. As long as it is not the only way to develop and you acn go in and fine-tune the code when you need to scale and refactor, I think I am all for it.
-Jackson
UPDATE:
There is a cool project on SourceForge that allows you to take ASP Matrix files, and a quick find/replace on them and run them in PHP. Check out webpanels (and a Google friendly link ASP.NET with PHP).
