Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
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Re: Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
#2Funny ... I haven't heard anyone crying.
Oh yeah, they're all developing HTML5 applications that will run on Chrome and Firefox and maybe Internet Explorer. Why worry about the OS' look and feel?
Re: Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
#3Funny ... I haven't heard anyone crying. Oh yeah, they're all developing HTML5 applications that will run on Chrome and Firefox and maybe Internet Explorer. Why worry about the OS' look and feel?
Given that there were about four or five posts on the front page about the changes to the express version changes it would that a lot of people care.
I'm glad Microsoft listened to people on this one.
Re: Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
#4Off topic: the "headlinese" title of this article results in syntactic ambiguity.
I read it as: The coder who built Microsoft Answers (http://answers.microsoft.com/) cried because of a new development kit.
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Re: Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
#5Off topic: the "headlinese" title of this article results in syntactic ambiguity. I read it as: The coder who built Microsoft Answers ( http://answers.microsoft.com/ ) cried because of a new development kit. Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_blossom#In_headlines
Headlines That Capitalize Every Word can be annoying. Normal capitalization provides semantic value.
Re: Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
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Re: Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
#7Off topic: the "headlinese" title of this article results in syntactic ambiguity. I read it as: The coder who built Microsoft Answers ( http://answers.microsoft.com/ ) cried because of a new development kit. Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_blossom#In_headlines
Same. Then I read the article and couldn't figure out who was crying. Had you not posted anything, I'd have spent the rest of my evening scratching my head on that one.
Re: Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
#8In before the hate train starts rolling full steam ahead right over Microsoft. This is a fantastic decision, they obviously really had no choice otherwise a lot of people would have abandoned Windows 8 development and Microsoft would have looked bad launching an OS that didn't have many supported applications.
As for Windows XP support, why would Microsoft add in support for an OS they don't really support any more? It has been 11 years, well almost 12 since XP came out and the fact people want to support the outdated OS is like asking Google to start supporting Internet Explorer 6 again.
Re: Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
#9Off topic: the "headlinese" title of this article results in syntactic ambiguity. I read it as: The coder who built Microsoft Answers ( http://answers.microsoft.com/ ) cried because of a new development kit. Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_blossom#In_headlines
Same. Then I read the article and couldn't figure out who was crying. Had you not posted anything, I'd have spent the rest of my evening scratching my head on that one.
For everyone else who is still confused (including me until a minute ago), join coder and cries with a dash.
Re: Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
#10It seems like the risk of not collecting $500 from a bunch of developers is peanuts compared to the real threat MSFT now faces of people choosing to develop non Windows-specific apps which happen to still work on Windows. How many "apps" have you installed lately which are really just local servers with web front-ends? Qt-based stuff? Java SWT/Swing? What else? While many of these apps likely are built upon 3rd party components developed using Visual Studio (perhaps a free version), the makers of these apps almost always provide a Mac and Linux version. Microsoft has passed a dangerous tipping point where it is now like Apple in the early 90's -- fighting to attract developers who will provide killer, platform-specific apps. We all laughed as Ballmer screamed, "Developers, developers, developers!" However, he's all too well aware of the danger Microsoft faces of losing its dominance as a platform provider. I'd say "lost" as I believe they're already running on fumes, but they still control a huge portion of the desktop market. They should be worrying that developers won't develop anything at all which relies on their APIs and forgo the overly ambitious goal of buying developers' use of Metro. In a storm, any 'ol port will do.