Ok, so Microsoft officially made their stripped down IDE set free "forever." However, if you look at the web page, check out the following two banner images they used to advertise a programming tool…
I’m not implying that women are not good programmers. I just don’t think a girl with a laptop on a bed/couch is the typical programmer using genuine Microsoft products.
Ok. What the fuck? Is this sex appeal? A new form of Agile development? You can’t get much geekier than an IDE and programming tools. The third one in the rotation is a guy in front of desktop pumping his fist in the air in exultation. Umm.. Yeah.
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Dude, you don’t pair-program like that at work? Dammit, neither do I.