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@h4rm0ny - Re: M$'s programming products?

h4rm0ny wrote :- "if you don't want to keep typing "compilers, linkers and debuggers...", you might just refer to as 'programming products'"

Maybe, but GP was right. "Product" is marketing droids' language. .

A geek would have said "MS languages", "MS stuff", "MS software", "MS IDEs", or even "MS development suites" - anything but "MS programming products".