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I know you guys will get your feathers ruffled here. But I have NEVER installed a Microsoft product or SDK without some sort of side-effects. When I installed some C# tools (back a couple of years ago), it dorked up my automatic OS updates....when I talked to someone at Microsoft, they said yeah, I needed to remove this registry entry, uninstall this and that, reinstall such and such (including the .NET). My biggest complaint about MS has been the subtle coupling with the OS (or that there is code that says "if Kelly, screw up computer..."). So, while it may be the best thing since sliced bread....I still get the shivers at installing anything Microsoft (except the OS when I am reformating!) And I don't think I am that gun-shy considering I have built 7 computers from scratch and installed the Chinese and Spanish version of NT4 and Microsoft office.

I just found it a nice change that the Ruby on Rails worked immediately (took all of 10 minutes with a gabby 3.5 year old in my lap)...and interestingly enough, I didn't need a 3 course programming solution on my laptop right then :-) Don't know about other current installs, but I am happy with the LACK of coupling and side-effects with my server and my laptop while playing with Ruby.

Comments by Kel reprinted with permission. Originally posted a couple days ago on a small developers mailing list that I subscribe to named software-brewing.