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Comment by edw519 | Hacker News Reader

I wish Microsoft had their evil genius back.

Not me.

I've had 3 career phases: BMS, DMS, AMS, Before Microsoft, During Microsoft, and After Microsoft.

I remember how cool things were back in the good old PHP/VAX/Microdata/CPM days before Windows fucked everything up. Then I suffered with every enterprise who had adopted all things Microsoft. Now that people feel we actually have choices again, I don't ever want to look back. Any wonder I feel like a kid again?

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Second that. This is a huge case of 'Be careful what you ask for'.

Or, 'Don't get cocky, kid!'

Steve Jobs has Google + Android to keep him busy repeating history anyway.

Poorly disguised gloating is poorly disguised gloating.

Agreed, I actually left working as a systems administrator entirely back in 2002, and I already had a policy to not directly touch windows systems. The blowback and bullshit from dealing with things that even have to interface with them was ridiculous and frustrating as hell, and they were everywhere so it was impossible to just ignore that. I moved to software development for the web after a sabbatical trying to figure out if I even wanted to stay in the industry at all after the hell that was dealing with that ecosystem.

I most definitely DO NOT want that back, a neutered microsoft steered by a geriatric scatterbrain happily tending his ancient cash cows is fine by me. Google are plenty good enough to take the juggernaut role Microsoft used to occupy, and they have the added plus of not fucking up my corner of existence while they're at it.

Just curious but could you fill me in on what PHP stands for? I've tried googling it but I'm, of course, getting the other PHP.

I think what was intended was PDP. (see DEC history on wikipedia)

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