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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. 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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    Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
    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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      No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
    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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      --You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
  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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    -Matthew Riley "TofuMatt" MacPherson
    I have a website
  4. 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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  5. Well respected? by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 5, Funny

    well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community Oxymoron?