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iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest

Posted by timothy on from the cross-platform dept.

imamac writes "Startup Weekend was a 54-hour coding marathon held on Microsoft's campus last weekend. It was designed to encourage the use of MS programming technologies. However, the winner of the contest was an iPhone app: '"Awkward," whispered Startup Weekend organizer Clint Nelsen into the microphone upon announcing the top vote getter.'"

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  1. Then there's the App Store by lostpuppy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They shouldn't be able to win until apple accepts the app for download.

  2. Re:Apple apps vs. Micro$oft apps by erroneus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I always thought rule one was "Make 100% sure Bill Gates won't be showing a crowd a BSOD!" Not saying anything good about the competition might be rule #2.

  3. Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free! by gilesjuk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    XCode is free, only deploying to a real iPhone/iPod and selling in the app store costs money.

    Why should anyone pay money to develop for WinMo? it's market share has shrunk and C++ isn't a nice to write in as Objective C.

  4. Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free by Joehonkie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Xcode is free if you've got a Mac. Otherwise it costs 1 Macintosh worth of dollars.

  5. Also held on Microsoft campus by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Granted it moves every year, but this year it was also held at the Microsoft campus - and the 14 other apps were all written for Windows Mobile.

    Microsoft sponsored, at the Microsoft Campus, with mostly Microsoft apps - well, is it really so inaccurate to label it a Microsoft event even though technically it is not?

    It's close enough to be funny anyway.

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    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
  6. Re:Startup Weekend NOT An MS Event by Schnapple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Startup Weekend in general isn't an MS program, only the BizSpark program that helped organize this particular event.

    Well let's give them a little credit in not requiring everyone to only use MS products and develop for MS platforms.

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    Schnapple

  7. Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free by k2r · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > You can develop directly on your windows mobile pda.

    You can remove your appendix using a toothpick sticked into your left eye...

  8. Re:The only way to win by Spyky · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, sorry. I use Visual Studio every day and dabble in Eclipse and XCode. I prefer either of the later to Visual Studio. Visual Studio isn't a bad IDE, and it is certainly an appropriate choice for Windows only development, but saying it "light years ahead" of any other environment suggests you have never used anything else.