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ArcterEx comments on my post hitting Scoble for publically using Notepad to code. He gets into a lot about understanding the machine, which really doesn't have a lot to do with what I was on about - so let me reiterate. Scoble is, best I can tell, a marketing guy. What his post did was loudly proclaim that the MS development tools are too hard to use - even if you work for MS, and presumably have direct access to the developers. That's a terrible message to send out to the market. It's as if I said that I code in vi and file-in all my code - it would be a very negative commentary on Cincom Smalltalk - just like Scoble's post ended up being a very negative commentary on Visual Studio. What this amounts to is an implicit marketing failure - made worse by Scoble clearly not getting it. Make no mistake - anyone reading Scoble's blog the last couple of days got the idea that VS is not a good tool for beginners. Somehow, I seriously doubt that this is an idea that the VS team wanted to have MS marketing pushing out....
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