Microsoft hatred

I am yet to meet a person who has said good things about open source technologies without saying bad things about Microsoft.

Whether it is JAVA, Firefox or anything else, they have to say bad things about Microsoft to justify their point.

I had recently attended a Lean training from a reputed organisation, however the trainer (ex-IBM) there also could not complete his training without talking anti-microsoft.

Coding Standards and Line Length

I'll have to admit, I am from dinosaur age when it comes to computers. My first experince of programming BASIC in 1988 was on a VDU (was the term 'monitor' not that popular then?) which had 24 lines by 80 characters.

More than 20 years since that time, I find some people still having 80 character line limit in their coding standards, what a shame that technology has failed to convert the geeks :)