Thats funny, stumbling about a matter like this here @ CP. But you're definitely right. A couple of months ago, I made my dream come true and ordered a HTC Touch HD. Whats left is pure disappointment. Nothing really works. Phone calls, the real basics, are hard to make. Bluetooth works crappy, W-LAN looses settings again and again. No, that can't be the idea of a 'Smart-Phone'. I had a chance to play with a I-Phone twice for a couple of minutes. I don't like Apple, the way they are forcing users into certain decisions, the way they prescribe to use their stuff ... and that's why it is so damned hard for me to admit this: there is no such thing as an 'I-Phone killer' - it is simply (at the present) unreachable.

This used to be my favorite site .... used to be, now it became worthless, all my links to my favorite articles are gone, slow, messed up and all that because of this incredible improved .NET version ... yea right :((

Not only that the site has being upgraded from ASP to its .NET version but so has CP itself. It finally turned into one of those trendy .NET-heavy pages. $MS did a great job of turning heads around ...

@BlackDice: I couldn't say it any better...:) Starting about 20 years ago, soldering my first Z80 based machine together by hand, trying to find out how assembler works, moving on (I'm not going to mention the embarrassing work I did on the C64 ;) to a 8088, running everything off a single floppy, programming in pascal, then, next step, using Quick C, using a lot of inline #asm to speed my fractal generators up, then, for a while programming PLC's, finally found my way as a professional programmer at the big blue, crafting powerful tools in C, used worldwide - finally, about 5 years ago, switching to C++ and using it since ever then (of course, learned to use Java too and use it every now and then). Coming all this way and now looking at .NET makes me feel the same way as it does to you. Honestly, sometimes I try to find an answer for the question, if there is a purpose (MS?) behind all that, so that (specially new) programmes totally loose relation to what they are actually doing (in terms of underlying hardware, OS and so on). Ever thought about this?:doh: