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Re: Microsoft Flow

#62

Post by arsalanb »

andysinclair wrote: post #33
arsalanb wrote: post #16

Microsoft always gives the vibe of a company that is desperate to salvage some pride from its glory days. It was once a giant, but now they're on the brink of redundancy, in terms of being viewed as "innovative". This opinion may be controversial to many, but it is what a lot of people are thinking. They experiment, which is phenomenal. But none of those experiments have been a major hit. Apple has flagship products…

Microsoft, like every other company, has some failures and some successes, that's the nature of innovation; you stick with the ideas that work and abandon (hopefully quickly) the ones that fail. You're correct, some of the Microsoft experiments have failed but you need to balance that with the ones that are doing well such as Office365 and Azure.

Indeed. I may have judged them from the technologies that I see being used commonly, and turned a blind eye to important ones. That being said, Office365 and Azure are fairly popular anywhere.

Re: Microsoft Flow

#63

Post by blazespin »

meesterdude wrote: post #61

yet another stupid and uninformative $company_name + $company_product title. Better title: "Microsoft Flow: Automation Workflow and Task automation"

I don't get it, what's the problem? Just google "Microsoft Flow". Seems fine to me.

Re: Microsoft Flow

#65

Post by rossng »

toyg wrote: post #41
tyingq wrote: post #29

They have more integrations than are showing on the home page, but the only way to see the full list is to sign up. I uploaded some screen shots showing the available services/integrations: http://imgur.com/a/NR7Af

Dev A: "So, what other integrations should we add?" Dev B: "What about Skype? It's one of our products." Dev A: "I don't care, I only use Slack. Screw our users, right?" Dev B: "What about Skype for Business? People actually pay for that." Dev A: "Nah, Wunderlist is much more important. Much ."

Judging by the state of the various Skype apps, I suspect that getting anything added to Skype is a kafkaesque nightmare.

I bet these guys just let it drop in order to get their product released.

Re: Microsoft Flow

#66

Post by blazespin »

blue_dinner wrote: post #64

I wonder what this means for ITTT?

well, I'm sure IFTTT is more nimble than Microsoft and can leverage that by focusing on specific high margin verticals, though Kudos to MSFT for sure.

I do love how clued in MSFT is these days. Really raises the bar for everyone.

Re: Microsoft Flow

#67

Post by blazespin »

pella wrote: post #3

a new IFTTT competitor. more alternatives: * https://github.com/pjf/exobrain * https://github.com/cantino/huginn/ * https://github.com/bipio-server/bipio * https://github.com/ottawaruby/whenbot

Yeah, but this one will integrate pretty well with visual studio

Re: Microsoft Flow

#69

Post by blazespin »

I really hate how MSFT doesn't always respect its own SSO. Jeebus. I can't login with my live account. It's free, but you have to use a work/school account. Really?

Re: Microsoft Flow

#70

Post by PerfectElement »

AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #34
skocznymroczny wrote: post #32

Good thing they picked up a unique name that won't collide with any other similar named projects.

They obviously did some type checking on the name[1]. I'm sure they Squared up the UI elements while they were developing it[2]. The moments before launch must have been pretty tense though[3]. I just hope this service supports file uploads[4]. 1. https://github.com/facebook/flow 2. https://github.com/square/flow 3. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow 4. https://github.com/flowjs/flow.js

http://flowdj.com
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