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  1. A peek at Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Confirms Windows 8.1 Spring Update, To Focus On Non-touch Devices

    If you want a closer look on what's happening at Microsoft, check the upcoming Build Conference and the stuff at MSDN Channel 9.

  2. Re:please please please by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 1 · on Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart

    I think in the context of a discussion related to a (not even published) new language that aims to fix front-end development, the future of JavaScript is more relevant than its present.

    That's true. And somehow I don't see Apple or Microsoft racing to implement whatever Google has to offer in IE and Safari, respectively - which would pretty much kill the idea on the spot. Sure, they can compile to JS - they even say so explicitly - but there's no shortage of languages doing just that already, and it didn't really help them take over JS as the language for the web.

    Pragmatically, I do realize that JS is most likely the high-level programming language for the next decade. Especially now that it (and HTML) is essentially the only way to write portable apps between desktops and all major mobile platforms. And then consider Win8, where "apps should be writable in HTML5/JS" is an explicit design goal - if you're a JS developer, you really should watch the presentations on BUILD come September 13th, there will be a lot of relevant goodness there. And I don't think that Google is suddenly going to de-invest on their major push for HTML5 as the development platform for "Google connected experience", either, at least definitely not short-term.

    Which is why it's good that stuff is being fixed, and that all implementations (finally also including IE - well, better late than never) are striving to catch up on conformance, and actively competing on perf. Still, I wish that a better designed language would be the base of all these efforts - it would save us a lot of time on fixing things, which could then be used to improve it in other areas. Python in that role would have been awesome.

  3. Re:No? by connor_macleod · · Score: 1 · on Was .NET All a Mistake?

    Microsoft *is* apparently building .Net closer in to the OS with Windows 8 - this was the vision for Longhorn (out of it we got much of what makes .Net 3+ awesome today) - but with Jupiter, this is apparently becoming a reality. - the announcement will be at http://buildwindows.com/
    more info: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/windows-8-for-software-developers-the-longhorn-dream-reborn.ars/2

    Either way, .Net is still a very exciting ecosystem to be involved with, there's some mind blowing stuff going in and around it, and it is still an extremely viable development platform for a, quite frankly, huge percentage of the worlds top companies & financial institutions. Articles and questions like this always amaze me with their naivety of what is happening in the business world.

  4. Re:HTML? Really? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2 · on Where Is Firefox OS?

    The official demos so far have focused on HTML5/JS as a development platform for Windows 8. Nothing has been said about it being "the best way to port code between different versions of Windows". For that matter, nothing has been said about the need to port code at all.

    Until September, anyone who tells you that they know anything other than what's said in that video (like this Slashdot story) is presenting his guesswork as facts.