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  1. Re:Poor sods. by recoiledsnake · · Score: 2, Informative · on A Windows Phone 7 For Every Microsoftie

    Paul's take on that "review" http://windowsphonesecrets.com/2010/07/16/dont-bother-with-this-blog-post-disaster/

    A more nuanced summary of the reviews: http://reddevnews.com/blogs/redmond-review/2010/07/wp7-and-the-court-of-pundit-opinion.aspx

  2. Re:They aren't investors by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Accused of Squandering Billions On R&D

    By the way, here is an interview with Erik, where he touches upon the topic of C# & .NET design in research context.

  3. Re:Anti-Linux? by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?

    it goes like this, MS doesn't give anything to Windows-based open source projetcs, just primarily Linux-based ones.

    So what are they likely to do with Apache? Integrate .NET in with it of course, whch won't work on non-Windows boxen. I think they hope that they'll get open-source developers to develop for Apache(.NET) and thus be locked-in to Windows.

    I think that's what people are worried about, MS are trying to gently persuade people to stop development for all platforms in favour of Windows only.

  4. Re:Don't be a Nevile Chamberlain. by gbjbaanb · · Score: 1, Insightful · on Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight

    MS are definitely the enemy here, even Microsoft developers say so:

    When Walker [Scott Walker of open source DotNetNuke Web application] said his team was being ignored, he was speaking specifically of other groups in Microsoft -- among these being the open source group led by Sam Ramji. Walker said Ramji's group seems most interested in luring non-.NET (read: Linux)-based open source developers and projects over to the Microsoft platform. Native .NET developers -- including DotNetNuke -- just aren't on Ramji's radar.

    So, MS's push for open source acceptance is nothing of the sort - its a part marketing drive to help Microsoft and Microsoft software alone.

  5. Re:Old dogs and new tricks by TuringTest · · Score: 1 · on More Interest In Parallel Programming Outside the US?

    Interestingly, Microsoft knows that, and they seem really interested in providing the right framework to "take advantage of the multicore architectures while solving the most common problems with concurrency.

    Their Research Labs are doing a lot of good work with experimental language features, and many of them are getting their way into the .Net platform.

    This makes sense coming from this company, since one of their strong points always has been creating good development environments for the not-highly-specialized programmers of the world. These features take a good effort to make them very integrated into the old way of programming, and easy to use even without a "functional mindset".

  6. Re:Experince by TuringTest · · Score: 1 · on More Interest In Parallel Programming Outside the US?

    Interestingly, Microsoft seems really interested in providing the right framework to "take advantage of the multicore architectures while solving the most common problems with concurrency. Their Research Labs are doing a lot of good work with experimental language features, and many of them are getting their way into the .Net platform.

    This makes sense coming from this company, since one of their strong points always has been creating good development environments for the not-highly-specialized programmers of the world. This collection of features could put them again on the right track to dominate the software building environments.