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Yea, right. Maybe if it had OS X or Linux on it? I'm sure the hardware is ok, but at least developers need a POSIX compliant environment, and Microsoft does not have anything much to offer these days. It's a new world.

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Developers /need/ a POSIX compliant environment you say?

You speak for all of them?

For anything else other than .NET development a POSIX compliant environment is highly advantageous over a Windows environment.

I speak out of experience.

I think any devs making the very unlikely switch to Windows would know what they need to do get their POSIX fix.

In any case, this article seems to be rightly aimed at non devs.

Why would you go this route though? Unless you must do .NET professionally, there's no real reason for devs these days to use anything Windows. It just makes everything much more complicated, and many compromises because of platform readiness of many of the cutting edge projects (everything seems to start today on OSX/Linux).

That's not the point. This is about people switching to Wintel from MacBook (assuming they didn't buy a MacBook pro just to install Windows). Developer that use Mac/OS X use it because it's a UNIX machine, so moving to not POSIX compliant does not make much sense.

Just as there are lots of different types of OS needs, there are lots of different development needs. I develop in Windows and can't work on the software I build in OS X. Or Linux for that matter.

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