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Re: Microsoft Xim

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Post by girvo »

BigChiefSmokem wrote: post #79
paulirish wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> At some point they were just giving the AJAX name to anything javascript related They shipped the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit back in ~2008, when "Ajax" was generally synonymous with "JavaScript". Google's CDN was called the "AJAX Libraries CDN" until just a few years ago. It happens.

As I recall, the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit did just that - it enabled AJAX functionality in WebForms. Also, JavaScript is a first-class citizen in WinRT so I'm sure Oracle is getting some money from Microsoft for the brand.

I... I must be silly, but what does Oracle have to do with it?

Re: Microsoft Xim

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Post by skbohra123 »

Not compatible with Moto G (Android KitKat), this is the first app I have came across which is not compatible with this device.

Edit - "Xim will initially be available in US and Canada only; we plan to add additional country support shortly" Ah!

Re: Microsoft Xim

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Post by owenversteeg »

tdicola wrote: post #5
romanovcode wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with that?

Ask Zune folks how well squirt worked out for them.

I agree with your point, but I also want to point out that the term also has sexual connotations, which (in my experience) made up the bulk of the negative comments about it.

Re: Microsoft Xim

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Post by xtrumanx »

girvo wrote: post #81
BigChiefSmokem wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I recall, the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit did just that - it enabled AJAX functionality in WebForms. Also, JavaScript is a first-class citizen in WinRT so I'm sure Oracle is getting some money from Microsoft for the brand.

I... I must be silly, but what does Oracle have to do with it?

JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle. They got it when they bought Sun.

I don't think that they can capitalize on that trademark now though.

Re: Microsoft Xim

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Post by Pxtl »

BigChiefSmokem wrote: post #79
paulirish wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> At some point they were just giving the AJAX name to anything javascript related They shipped the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit back in ~2008, when "Ajax" was generally synonymous with "JavaScript". Google's CDN was called the "AJAX Libraries CDN" until just a few years ago. It happens.

As I recall, the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit did just that - it enabled AJAX functionality in WebForms. Also, JavaScript is a first-class citizen in WinRT so I'm sure Oracle is getting some money from Microsoft for the brand.

Most of the commonly-used functionality in Ajax Control toolkit were things like the date-picker, various animated widgets, and making the deployment guy scream and pull his hair out. The actual ajax-side of it was rarely used, in my experience.

Re: Microsoft Xim

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Post by woogle »

fataliss wrote: post #21

For a second I thought it would be some kind of editor vim style but Microsoft made. But no, just an other photo app. Can you still generate any revenue out of this kind of app in 2014? I feel like the market is pretty dense already, between dropbox, instagram, flickr ... plenty of apps already in the landscape, why an other?

Wow, I exactly felt the same. Microsoft made a vim editor?!.

(I'm using XVim every day, so Xim brainfckd me very hard)

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