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The guys I talked to during the process were all pretty cool, hope they land on their feet.
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https://killedbyms.com/ Who's still salty about Microsoft killing Zune and Windows Phone? 0.5 x /s
https://killedbyms.com/ Who's still salty about Microsoft killing Zune and Windows Phone? 0.5 x /s
https://killedbyms.com/ Who's still salty about Microsoft killing Zune and Windows Phone? 0.5 x /s
For everyone who doesn't work in the MS tech stack, this is pretty standard for the company. I get the sense they're taking a "Manhattan project" approach to grabbing cloud share. They find every promising technology they can, and either try to re-implement in their ecosystem or support it. Some of the stuff they're throwing at the wall sticks, and some of it doesn't.
I seen to remember the Manhattan project being a bit more single minded in it's focus. :)
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True, however for old timers, the recurring politics between WinDev and DevDiv are starting to get tiring.
What's that? For non-old timers :P
Since the introduction of .NET, when you seen Microsoft going all .NET, or having a cycle talking about why native is good and .NET should only be for LOB, it reveals which division is winning the political shots.
Some examples, Longhorn's failure, only to redo many of its ideas with COM in Vista, which ended up in WinRT.
WinRT/UWP looks suspiciously similar to ideas that gave birth to .NET, before it was decided to create a managed runtime instead (Ext-VOS) project.
Midori also proved it's capabilities by running part of Bing for a while, but it wasn't enough.
Joe Duffy has a remark on its Rustconf keynote, that even when proven wrong and given the opportunity to test drive Midori, the Windows team wasn't willing to change their mind.
Then you have them killing C++/CX in name of ISO compatibility, although UWP is anyway Windows only. So now DevDiv has to wait for the day ISO C++ supports the reflection and metaclasses, so that they can replicate the C++/CX tooling experience introduced in 2012.
Its disappointing and was announced a while ago. I really wish they would have kept it alive much longer... Azure Machine Learning is way more complex and Codespaces not yet available for normal people. Only free alter alternative with private Notebooks is Colab. Paperspace Gradient is awesome, but the free version requires public Notebooks.
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There’s actually way less products than I thought would be on there.
https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...
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Who else remembers when MS held a funeral for iPhone to celebrate releasing windows phone? https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-celebrates-windows-p...