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Nokia Has a Billion Reasons To Love WP7
theodp writes "A report from Bloomberg notes it ain't easy, or cheap, to outbid Google. Microsoft has reportedly agreed to pay Nokia more than $1 billion to 'promote and develop' Windows Phone devices under the agreement between the companies. Bloomberg says the agreement for the payment was 'part of a campaign by Microsoft to keep Nokia from choosing Google's Android operating system.'"
Some of us actually quite like Microsoft's dev tools. We're familiar with them and they do the job they do fairly well.
Stockholm syndrome.
Its a real shame that a supposed tech website like Slashdot has it's comments section consistently shitted up by people like Alex Belits who can't read anything pro-MS without having to play the 'shill' card. Its even more of a shame that the readers of this site, who so often like to use words like 'groupthink' and 'sheep' to describe other people, are so embrassingly and transparently guilty of exactly the same thing when they mod shit like OP's post up.
Question: What EXACTLY is wrong with Silverlight, other than you don't like the parent company? Because while I'm not a coder I'd have to say the SilveOS full OS in a browser is a pretty damned impressive demo. I'd say if you can cook up something THAT cool in Silverlight and actually have it run smooth in bog standard Firefox with no funkiness needed you ought to be able to cook up anything in it.
Me personally I never understood this whole "hate a language" thing (except maybe Brainfuck, but that was evil from birth) since all languages are tools and it is up to the coder to use it correctly instead of acting like a monkey with a wrench beating on a bomb. I've seen damned nice apps written in everything from C to VB and the coders I've known usually didn't have any trouble picking up a language.
So what exactly is wrong with the language known as Silverlight? I haven't seen it used a lot, but that doesn't mean it isn't a perfectly usable tool, just unpopular.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I haven't seen WP7 though I gather from the responses to the parent that it's not so great.
If you gather things from Slashdot's responses to MS's products... well there you go. Check it out yourself with an open mind, it's actually pretty good.
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