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Re:Is there a modern browser that runs on Windows 3.1? by rmATinnovafy on Sunday May 13, 2012 @09:42PM (#3969047)
You are totally right.

I forgot to mention that they are locked in to Oracle and Microsoft. My job was to develop a C# based system, but they made me use VS 2005 Express (!@#$%), because they would not buy the latest version/license.

That job taught me a lot about how not to treat your programmers.

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Re:Is there a modern browser that runs on Windows 3.1? by darklajid on Monday May 14, 2012 @01:10AM (#3969562)
"Would not buy the latest version/license" is .. misleading.

I don't want to offend you and cannot judge the motivations of your employer at that time, but .. You don't need a license to develop C#. Even if you _need_ VisualStudio (which you don't..), there's a free version available. Otherwise SharpDevelop/MonoDevelop (yes, the latter is available and applicable for Windows as well!) would've done the job. I'd probably have prefered to drop to a notepad/vim based setup before touching 2005 and looking at .Net 1.1/2.0 stuff again.

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