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I hope to live long enough to see Microsoft go out of business - having been replaced with real software written by people who care


First statement: I don't believe this to happen.
Second statement: Since they don't write in Assembler anymore I really doubt that this will be a future scenario. Today's languages cater to the unefficient programmer because they themselves do take so many tasks away that the programmer doesn't even have to be a good logician any more...

Today's computers salute the lazy software engineer: "Hey, I'm powerful enough. Don't worry about loading time of programs, my memory can hold programs as large as you want them to be. Do you have many loops and unefficient code? Eight cores in my processor handle that with ease and fast enough so that the user doesn't notice that you're a lousy programmer."

(I could go on, but still there are some magnificent software developers out there, but maybe these people avoid to be in contact with certain companies.)

Desktop; i7-2600k, 8 GB mem., Win 10 Pro, BIAB 2017; RB 2017 - latest build
Laptop: i5-2410M, 4 GB mem, Win 10 Pro, BIAB 2017; RB 2017 - latest build