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Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the rat-a-tat-tat dept.

jg21 writes "It is probably coincidental, but two responses to OpenSocial from well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community have each in their own way come out against Google's OpenSocial initiative, Dare Osabanjo because in his view OpenSocial while billed as a standardized widget platform for the Web, actually isn't. And Don Dodge because his claim is that fifty million Facebook developers "don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care.""

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  1. Big guns, eh? Bah. by Bananatree3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Guns ablazin', I'm SURE they could take on the entire Google fanbase.

    1. Re:Big guns, eh? Bah. by dynamo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Microsoft does not know what an open standard IS, though they keep claiming to.

      Hell, they don't really even know what a standard is.

    2. Re:Big guns, eh? Bah. by orclevegam · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hell, they don't really even know what a standard is.

      Sure they do, that's that thing they keep changing every time they release a new version of Office.

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  2. Microsoft employees bashing something non-MS? by ByOhTek · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Shocking! Shocking I say!

    What is wrong with the world, this day in age, when a company's employees will come out and bash the competitors competing products?
    </sarcasm>

    This is about as surprising as Ballmer bashing Apple, Apple bashing MS or Google, [insert any other corporate rivalry here]. News it ain't.

    Grammar Nazis: Yes, I am aware that "ain't" really isn't a word.

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    1. Re:Microsoft employees bashing something non-MS? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's even funnier than that! It's Microsoft employees bewailing the notion that people don't follow standards!

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    2. Re:Microsoft employees bashing something non-MS? by Misch · · Score: 5, Funny

      I thought it was going to be the next MS hardware venture - the Chairapult

      No, it's the Trebuchaise.

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  3. What social networks are really about... by TofuMatt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree. Who the fuck cares about APIs? It's not like people are joining Facebook just to add fifty million stupid applications to their profile.

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  4. fifty million Facebook developers by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    fifty million Facebook developers "don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care."

    Well yeah, if you're going to base the usefulness of something on how many Facebook developers know about it, pretty much nothing is useful.
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  5. Facebook Developers by onion2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    There aren't 50 million Facebook developers. It only seems that way because there's 50 million 'really awesome super dooper wall' applications.

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  6. Well respected? by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 5, Funny

    well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community Oxymoron?
    1. Re:Well respected? by CarpetShark · · Score: 4, Funny

      well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community

        Oxymoron?


      Where did you get "oxy" from? ;)
  7. New Redmond Ploy by segedunum · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It might be just me, but there seems to be an awful lot of blog posts coming from Redmond employees these days based on the new tactic of "If we get enough people banging on our blogs and rubbishing it enough, and then claim that we're the victims in all of this when someone raises a valid point, maybe people will believe that it's true!"

  8. Users != Developers by downix · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Facebook does not have 50 million developers. It has 50 million users. Active developers are an incredibly small minority within that community.

    Or are you saying that Miss take-a-self-portrait-at-arms-length-on-her-cell-phone is a developer because she knows how to post a picture as her background?

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