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Microsoft Releases Windows 10 SDK
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today launched developer tools for the Windows 10 Technical Preview, including a software development kit (SDK). Developers can use the new tools, currently in preview, to start building universal Windows apps for Microsoft's upcoming operating system. A universal Windows app is Microsoft's verbiage for an app that can run across different form factors, including PCs, tablets, and phones. Developers can publish these apps in the Windows Store, which will be available across all types of Windows 10 devices.
I tried to roll a Win10 app but I couldn't get it to compile in Linux.
Also, what is this Clippy thing that keeps popping up and asking me if I want bigger chrome fins on my OS?
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If it was 1995 I'd be really excited right now!
You're like the guys who, back in 1995, claimed that Linux is the future and 1996 would be the Year of Desktop Linux.
Soon it was 1996, Windows still ruled the roost, and the guys like you were saying that 1997 would be the Year of Desktop Linux.
Soon it was 1997, Windows still ruled the roost, and the guys like you were saying that 1998 would be the Year of Desktop Linux.
Soon it was 1998, Windows still ruled the roost, and the guys like you were saying that 1999 would be the Year of Desktop Linux.
Soon it was 1999, Windows still ruled the roost, and the guys like you were saying that 2000 would be the Year of Desktop Linux.
Many years pass...
Now it's 2015, Windows still rules the roost, and the guys like you are saying that 2016 will be the Year of Desktop Linux.
This delusion you suffer from is pathetic. You go on and on about "the future", yet you do this while completely ignoring reality.
Sorry, Linux has had over two decades to take down Windows, but it hasn't come anywhere close. OS X has had well over a decade, with a similar lack of success. Mobile devices are pretty much useless compared to a desktop for any sort of serious work.
Windows is here to stay. The only thing that could potentially harm Windows' dominance is Microsoft really screwing stuff up badly. But as Windows 8 has shown us, they can screw up pretty damn badly yet still outdo Linux and OS X!
Big whoop. Microsoft is just not insisting that OEMs produce motherboards with SecureBoot which can be disabled. That's it. If you want to get upset over that, no one will stop you, but a fair few people will laugh at your misdirected rage-fest.
They aren't forcing OEMs to do it, Microsoft is giving OEMs the choice and software should be about choice, shouldn't it?
If you buy hardware that you can't disable SsecureBoot on, it's the because the OEM chose to not because Microsoft forced them.