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Has Microsoft bought a share of CodeProject? All the Daily News are Microsoft this, Microsoft that! .NET this, .NET that! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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While it would not surprise me if MS did have a stake in CP it is Microsoft CENTRIC with some weird stuff thrown in so you can expect a fairly high level of MS content.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Well, in my company internet is locked except for a few util site. I was able to make CP unlocked last month because a HUGE part of MSDN search results links to CP articles or forums, so it would make sense.
Also, it would be plainly dumb if a community as big as CP ignores the biggest software house that produces compilers and IDEs. VisualStudio and other MS technologies are widely used, and Windows is still the default platform for a lot of services. Being the size that it is MS produces heavy quantities of news every day, and the general Internet user isn't interested in news involving SW development.
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den2k88 wrote: HUGE part of MSDN search results links to CP articles or forums
Wow! Never used MSDN search before, but checked it and MY article came first on the list! I may abandon Google...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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StackOverflow took 99% of the result and my article is the only one from CodeProject!  ! That's right no more google'n else forth!
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By using MSDN I came to the conclusion that if you are searching something Windows related MSDN search is actually more useful and accurate than many generic search engines.
If only the .NET documentation was well crafted as the Win32 one...
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den2k88 wrote: a HUGE part of MSDN search results links to CP articles
Wow  , just checked it. This is a great surprise for me. However I don't think MS has stake in CP. CP is more MS Tech oriented just like the serverside.com which is more java oriented.
Regards,
Prasad P. Khandekar
Knowledge exists, man only discovers it.
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Does the bull own the rabbits in the meadow ?
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Is that one of those zen koans? Feels like I should know more about the cosmos if I only knew the relationship between bulls and bunnies.
TTFN - Kent
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Mu.
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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CodeProject has always been and, I believe, was always intended to be a Microsoft-oriented site. Rumor has it that several of the early Microsoft top management folks slept with Bob before they discovered pretty girls. Once they were billionaires they had more options, of course. Other technologies are welcome, but we don't see them very often.
Will Rogers never met me.
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You can't prove anything and besides: all the photos have been destroyed. It never happened, dammit.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Bad news, Chris; when he's drunk, Bob talks, and he's a cheap date. All those times you've been binging with the rodents in the server vault, Bob's been skipping over to Bullhead City for a little jet ski action and cheap beer. Like I said, he talks... I don't, of course, but I take notes... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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How much programming is done for Microsoft operating systems*, and how much for other systems**?
* By people who are willing to take part in something like CP.
** By people who are willing to step away from their mutual back-slapping/bitch-slapping societies and take part in something like CP.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hearts don't show in my emoticon list, so I was going with what I had!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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You're lucky, I don't have neither hearts nor kegs. A life without love and alcohol (or at least one of the two) is an empty life 
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You do now[^].
/ravi
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Thanks Ravi!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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They do now[^].
/ravi
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.NET's kinda been big in the news lately.
But no, Microsoft haven't bought a share but if they have a spare squillion lying around then I'm happy to negotiate from our tax-friendly hollowed-out-volcano island HQ.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If they ever do buy into the Project, don't forget that you promised, years ago, that the first 5,000 members would get Preferred Voting shares, and the rest mere non-voting Common stock. Or warrants to be granted at our whim...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Was I drunk when I said that?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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