jkxx's Journal: Microsoft nonsense

I was browsing the net as usual when I stumbled upon http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/facts/default.asp the info on that page. Halfway down or so it goes "Upgrade to .Net and boost peformance/lower costs".. so I went out and found an actual stat someone performed to measure how fast Microsoft's .Net languages go (C#,J#,VB.net) and see if there's any truth to that. Well at http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602&page=3 MS apparently did so bad that their new C# runs slower than just Visual C++. And to top it off, Sun Java 1.4.2 performs the same as VC++ (except on trig math), and Java is an interpreted, not even a compiled language.

Perhaps the lower costs in Microsoft's estimates come from a weekly hurricane followed by exploding [Dell] servers for no apparent reason, followed by volcano-like tectonic plate movement at the server site.