Microsoft Win

So my previous Microsoft Fail post would make you think that I exclusively hate Microsoft. Surprisingly I think those guys in Redmond do come out with some genius ideas every once in a while (emphasis on the ‘once in a while’ :-) So in all fairness, here starts the Microsoft Win list:

1. Xbox 360 – countless hours of happiness!
2. C# – one of the most beautiful languages ever written for a computer.
3. ASP.NET – started out as a web framework with so much potential and it has never failed to deliver.
4. .NET Framework – an endless repository of win!
5. Windows 2000 – the perfection of an operating system – for its time.
6. Microsoft Excel – spreadsheets rock!
7. Active Directory – unlike any network directory service you’ll ever encounter.
8. LINQ – because I’ll never use a foreach loop to search through an object collection ever again.
9. Surface Computing - the single most *real* advancement for true ubiqtious computing beyond personal devices.
10. Zune HD – despite lacking phone capabilities – a marevelous piece of hardware with equally amazing software integration.