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Windows 8 Is Ready
New submitter drinkydoh writes "In an announcement today, Microsoft has finally said that Windows 8 is now complete. Microsoft has begun delivering RTM versions to manufacturers and the general availability of the tablets and computers using Windows 8 will be on October 26th. 'Microsoft's final milestone concludes almost two years of development for its new Metro-inspired Windows 8 software and marks the beginning of the release phase. Microsoft says MSDN and TechNet customers will be able to download it from August 15th. Windows Store will go live on August 15th. Developers will be able to access the final tools and submission process for Metro style apps at the Windows Dev Center later this month.'"
Apple has ObjectiveC and clean API refreshes, Microsoft has legacy and unclean APIs.
Yet Microsoft are always shocked when Apple bring out something that just works that Microsoft is working on and won't be ready for another 5 years... ehm Vista, DirectX UI, .Net... Apple Objective-C, Coca etc.
Yet nobody at Microsoft want's to clean house, what do they do? Wrap Win32 into MFC, then WinForms then WFC etc... Now back to DirectUI COM API's.
MSFT Lost the plot 10 years ago, I worked there for a decade... Even today my MSFT friends are so much of fanboi they are BLIND and automatically blinker themselves to constructive criticism about anything against MSFT... Just look at the fucking laughingstock the mobile team is .. why? BALMER. A FUCKING MORON. A rich one but still a bitter, clueless, MORON.
"World class" doesn't mean what you think it means.
World class really SHOULD mean... it just works and lets you do the job.
You list lots of languages but in reality most companies just want to hire VB coders and are scared shitless of even mixing lanugages.
World class my ass.