week@work

For years, I've read countless complaints and horror stories about Microsoft. As a satisfied user of MS Office, I've always wondered, "How bad can it be?" Past 2 weeks was the time when I finally realize that MS Office is pretty much the only decent software that Microsoft has ever created. Here's why.

As a Computer Science student, I was forced to go through the "Microsoft Experience" for the past 2 weeks while doing my Industrial Attachment. Not that I've never used any MS tools before, but this time in particular, I'm dealing with Developers' tools.

There is a vast difference between using an End-user software and a developer software, and I experience this first-hand while I am enhancing an existing ASP.NET project which the previous Interns left behind. Perhaps the most obvious difference is this: For end-users, you install 1 software to complete 3 tasks. For developers, you install 3 software to create your 1st troubleshoot.

Here's the sequence of activities during my past 2 weeks: