Well, that was disappointing. Spent about 20 minutes trying to get in on this, only to find out it is sold out when the site finally loads. If they want developers to give Windows 8 a spin, they'll need to put in a little more effort to make this process less of a pain.
Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers
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Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers
#72Well, that was disappointing. Spent about 20 minutes trying to get in on this, only to find out it is sold out when the site finally loads. If they want developers to give Windows 8 a spin, they'll need to put in a little more effort to make this process less of a pain.
Yeah, I've been periodically refreshing it all morning, only to finally receive the 'sold out' message myself.
In all fairness, I don't have any immediate needs for Windows development, and it's by no means a certainty that I would have actually built something Windows-centric, so it's probably no great loss for either side.
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#73The frustrating experience of trying to order this is why nobody wants to deal with your platform... sigh
To be fair, the headaches today were our (Swish's) fault, not Microsoft's. If MS decides to run another set of these, we'll make sure we are better prepared. Unless you mean the disabled "I'm a developer" button -- that was intentional and supposed to be fun.
Would you be willing to do a short post-mortem write up on the load challenges your site faced? Since you are part of the HN crowd, I imagine you did all the reasonable things and somethings still surprised you :)
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#74Well played MS.....
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#75Makes me wonder if Microsoft would ever consider releasing IE for Mac OS X again. That would seem to be a good way to make sure Mac Developers target IE...
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, the headaches today were our (Swish's) fault, not Microsoft's. If MS decides to run another set of these, we'll make sure we are better prepared. Unless you mean the disabled "I'm a developer" button -- that was intentional and supposed to be fun.
Would you be willing to do a short post-mortem write up on the load challenges your site faced? Since you are part of the HN crowd, I imagine you did all the reasonable things and somethings still surprised you :)
Yep, we plan to write a blog post all about it, and what we'll fix going forward.
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#77Sorry if I missed this - but what do you get on the USB stick that isn't the same as downloading Parallels / Win 8 / IE10 combo they offer on the site?
Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers
#78Makes me wonder if Microsoft would ever consider releasing IE for Mac OS X again. That would seem to be a good way to make sure Mac Developers target IE...
That's good in theory, but in practice it would likely be another browser/platform to test and debug.
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#79Sorry if I missed this - but what do you get on the USB stick that isn't the same as downloading Parallels / Win 8 / IE10 combo they offer on the site?
Isn't the full Windows 8 license only available to MSDN subscribers though?
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#80Sorry if I missed this - but what do you get on the USB stick that isn't the same as downloading Parallels / Win 8 / IE10 combo they offer on the site?
On MS's site, you can download VMs for use with an existing Virtualization Platform like Parallels or Virtual Box. The VMs are guest operating systems with limited trial time. MS's docs suggest you use your VM manager to roll back when time runs out.
With the USB key promo, you get a full license for parallels and a full license for Win8.