Subj : Re: Borland vs MS To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : Daniel James Date : Sun Aug 03 2003 01:36 pm In article <3f2bff84@newsgroups.borland.com>, Tom Boser wrote: > C++ Builder is an excellent tool for building windows apps > and if you are are careful about it and use the clx > libraries, you can develope apps that port to Linux This is true. > That's something that is a little more difficult to do with > MFC. So is this. > MFC is pretty much a dead framework. Microsoft is > pushing .NET developement these days. This in not so true. MFC is still the Microsoft framework of choice for native-code applications on Windows platforms, and is still being extended and enhanced in the .NET versions of Developer Studio. Microsoft is pushing .NET development because they are pushing web services as the latest silver bullet, and .NET is their main web service development tool (now that they're not allowed to make Java work the way they want on Windows). MFC isn't dead, and won't die until people stop developing native code apps on Windows. Anyone wanting to develop cross-platform apps should look at Qt (free for Open Source development, but quite expensive for commercial projects) or wxWindows (free). Cheers, Daniel. .