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ViniciusApolinario
Microsoft
Sep 22, 2018How Windows Server helped your career?
Hello from sunny Orlando, FL!
We're here working on the final details for Microsoft Ignite 2018. During the week, we're hosting a party for the Windows Server community, and we'd like to know h...
Alun Jones
Sep 23, 2018Copper Contributor
As a Unix developer in the 90s, I built an FTP server for Windows simply to avoid having to trudge up and down the hallway with a floppy disk in my hand every time I wanted to take new code from the version control system (DOS-based) to the Sun workstation.
Then it became fun to point out to my Unix colleagues that I was running reliable Internet server software on a Windows machine, and finally it just seemed notably easier to write reliable software for Windows than for Unix.
I've been Windows-centric ever since, and was able to be a work-from-home dad as a result.