C#!!??? Required for electrical engineering majors (under this deal)??!!! What are they going to use it for? (Oh yeah. Create a oven that uses Web Services. Or something like that. Wasn't Microsoft been pushing the Smart House idea at one time?)

I'd rather EE majors learn things like: assembly (duh), Python (scientific processing), and maybe C. Java, maybe (new cell-phones???). But C#??!!!

Computer engineers... ok, maybe. But EEs??!!.

But yes, colleges like money (in any way they can get it... selling names of buildings... creating monopolies for a drink manufacturer - just a few of the tactics of a Certain Technical University that I know of)

(This is the same SSL bug that they discovered in IE/Konquerer a week or so ago.. now it might be bigger then they thought.)

Food for thought: I bet it takes Microsoft longer to test and qualify a release then it takes people in the OSS world. Even if MS has the coding part done, it'll need to go through a lot of QA before it hits Windows Update.

"schmoozing" through the Internet, swapping bits of code apparently. An interesting article, despite the slightly deceptive story-line.