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Consumers may or may not "love windows 8" but this article is swimming in non sequitur. But I get it. To frame this post in context, from my stint at Microsoft I saw how serious points are awarded to those who beat the drums. Logic be damned; if your W8 app get 100K downloads and your glowing blog post makes the rounds it's a favorable line item on your review. So it's hard to comprehend for a lot of us, but when Mic…
Also, I'm not sure Windows 8 was ever marketed as the most openly developed OS in the world. It IS the most open of any Microsoft OS to date, however, so maybe that's why you are confused.
1) There were some exceptions to this rule I believe for WP8 apps but I'm not entirely clear on the details.
(Microsoft employee)
Sometimes the anti-MS sentiment here is almost as silly as the gushiness of the MSDN blog post. Given Windows8 sold upwards of 3million licenses within the first couple of days (and probably many more now), 100k downloads of a card game app seems pretty darn reasonable to me. This factor becomes even less surprising if the app is promoted in the Win8 app store, or if it is one of the few card game apps, etc. Also, th…
>A person, employee or not, posting about his positive experiences is to be expected. He's not only an employee, he's a mobile product evangelist.
Again, it's on MSDN, so not really surprising.
I'm not sure about Apple, but I know Google has developer evangelists as well.
Or it could be that people older than 55 are the biggest market for card games, regardless of platform? The entire article is filled with illogical conclusions. Please don't post this bullshit on HN, articles that so grossly underestimate their audience's intelligence are just irritating.
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spoiler, we did NOT get 100k downloads. not yet at least.
direct link: https://bitly.com/ZaeRY9
If someone is looking at an app store on Day 1, for games, there's a chance that they just want to play Solitaire, Freecell, or another card game. I give this guy credit for recognizing that. Over time he'll likely see much more than 100,000 downloads.
Consumers may or may not "love windows 8" but this article is swimming in non sequitur. But I get it. To frame this post in context, from my stint at Microsoft I saw how serious points are awarded to those who beat the drums. Logic be damned; if your W8 app get 100K downloads and your glowing blog post makes the rounds it's a favorable line item on your review. So it's hard to comprehend for a lot of us, but when Mic…
In truth, employees are not rated at all on whether their app gets downloads, unless maybe you're one of the in-box apps. Apps like the one linked above are covered under a moonlighting policy -- basically, feel free to create an awesome app and sell it and keep the profits, but don't use any company resources or time to make it happen[1]. Getting 100k downloads will absolutely not factor in on your review. Also, I'm…
(ex-MSFT, 14y)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's a Microsoft employee. It would take about 2 seconds to click the link on his name to see that. Are you implying he is lying? Half of the iOS posts are from folks like John Gruber or Marco Arment. Are you suspicious when they write a post? Or when someone from Mozilla writes a pro-Mozilla post, etc? Are you suspicious that Apple may actually be bankrupt, because their earnings numbers come from a suspicious sourc…
Yes I know, and from extensive experience, I'd trust the mouth of a 409 scammer more. Reputation as well as bad reputation are earned. Re Apple: Bankrupt no - morally bankrupt perhaps. Its not on the fence when MSFT issued Surface tabs to every staff member.
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Yes I know, and from extensive experience, I'd trust the mouth of a 409 scammer more. Reputation as well as bad reputation are earned. Re Apple: Bankrupt no - morally bankrupt perhaps. Its not on the fence when MSFT issued Surface tabs to every staff member.
Surfaces will be distributed to employees in late December.