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Comment by jamal-kumar | Hacker News Reader

Does anyone else work for a company or have clients who are investing heavily in moving off of Microsoft entirely in the past month? It's been like 90% of my work in the past bit. Like, whole ASP.NET apps that were running for decades just being migrated over with a one year timeline to get away from this nonsense.

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Out of curiosity, what are these companies migrating ASP.NET apps to? Newer ASP.NET (Core) on Linux? Or are they swearing off .NET entirely?

Microsoft has been strongly pushing everybody into core for a while. Even people that code doesn't (and won't ever) support.

I had a worker suggest paying for microsoft teams, I literally laughed in the meeting for like 60 seconds.

A fiserv engineer recently told me not to hold my breath and I suspect the rest of the midsize banking ecosystem is going to be the same.

Big push in the retail POS space

Windows has been nothing but a source of problems for my employer’s Windows-based hardware. 7 was the last version I would consider basing a product on.

I was also thinking medical devices and those other critical things you hear about

When were these applications built that "this nonsense" is a surprise? I mean good for them for deciding now rather than never, just seems strange to me.

You'd be surprised how many enterprises have been basically running the same codebase since the 90s

Or worse - code built around 90s code such that the ancient code is now untouchable and you have to perform binary gymnastics to accomplish your goals.

Has anything fundamentally changed? You can solve 90% of business use cases with RFC 2818.

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