I liked the Silverlight version of Hotmail. It was super snappy and jut felt really solid. The html viewers always seem kind of rickety to me. (I hate how I can highlight text on the body of the page. Ughhh.) Anyway, the main problem with the current Hotmail site is the heavy Flash ads. They hog tons of CPU. I'm glad to see these newer, more subdued ads on Outlook.com.
The infighting and competition between teams is the worst and Silverlight & XNA are the two most recent victims. C# and Silverlight are the two main reasons I chose to be a Windows developer. Without those I'm free to head to other pastures.
They need to support hardware-accelerated 3D in C# / Xaml metro apps, not just C++ apps. I don't care if they bring back XNA (as in WP7) or if they integrate 3D into Xaml (as they did with Silverlight 5 and WPF 4). Either way, we can't rely on third-party wrappers around old DirectX libraries. It needs to be officially supported and baked into the tools and libraries.
Microsoft should just host and serve the game updates from its own Azure cloud. Then just pass that hosting fee on to game devs. It's very reasonablly priced and that way devs will only pay for what they use. They will know they are getting a good market rate for the services (since Azure has to stay competitive with Amazon).
Who is getting on Apple's case for bundling Safari? I won't even go into Chromebook, but Apple has a bigger monopoly in the tablet space than MS ever had in the desktop space. OS makers should be able to bundle whatever browser they want. This is just a case of the EU getting greedy and lookng for way to take cash from anyone who has it.
I'm a big fan of Agile, just not the flavor my company uses.
- You can't plan R&D
- You can't schedule the next big discovery
- You can't hold one person accountable to the estamtes of another person
- A developer should be accountable for delivering stories and quality, not tasks
I almost never check mail on my laptop anymore. The mail apps that come bundled with Windows Phone 7 are so quick, reliable and easy to use that I use them exclusively. I still write lengthy emails on my laptop, though.
I want more! I admit that the game discovery could be improved on the 360. But I don't want to just play games anymore. What I really want is apps! I want useful apps, fun apps (games), media apps, social apps and educational apps. Most of all I want apps that can interact with each other like the charms feature in Windows 8. I want to be able to take a snapshot in a game, send that over to my image editing app then make it my backdrop or send it to a friend.
Browsers are converging, there is no question about it. I don't doubt that as browsers get closer and closer to standards that jQuery gets slimmer and it's bac-end code gets simpler. So... why will we even need it anymore when regular JS and HTML5 work equally well?
According to that chart IE hasn't been in the lead since 2008. However, NetApplications and others show IE with a much larger percentage. The HUGE gap in numbers make me doubt all of the numbers.
So true. No matter how good smart phones are, you will always be able to make a bigger more powerful computer for a cheaper price that sits under a desk or in a closet at home. Those of us who want to do more with our computers will always want these "PCs".
I am going to have my team begin development on Win8 applications right away and push for hardware to test and develop on. Hopefully this will trickle down to the rest of the company and the IT staff.
If Surface is a success it will jumpstart the entire Windows ecosystem and check the growth of the iPad. This will only help the OEMs in the end. If it's not a success then it's not a threat to OEMs.
My understanding is that developers can create metro apps using HTML5, C++ or.Net. The latter two use Xaml for the layout. I have written a number of metro apps using the C# + Xaml option. Granted I have only tried them on x86 development machines but I expect that these metro apps will all work on ARM as well.
are more of a burden than a boon. You get very little for your money with more cores when running Android. Put Windows 8 on those cores and now you'll give Microsoft a run for its money... with its own software.
It sounds good on paper but actually getting OpenStack to work on our hardware was a nightmare. It took multiple man months just to get our test machines to fully boot up. We recently switched to Azure and we're not going back any time soon.
I can't wait to get my hands on this! I can't beleive that nobody has solved this problem yet. Hopefully SmartGlass will deliver. i also hope it can talk directly to the XBox through your home router instead of going out to the cloud and back down. We'll see. Oh, and while I'm asking for stuff, let us develop XBox apps using Xaml/C# (or some flavor of Silverlight).
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I liked the Silverlight version of Hotmail. It was super snappy and jut felt really solid. The html viewers always seem kind of rickety to me. (I hate how I can highlight text on the body of the page. Ughhh.) Anyway, the main problem with the current Hotmail site is the heavy Flash ads. They hog tons of CPU. I'm glad to see these newer, more subdued ads on Outlook.com.
These look really compelling. I just want to handle and feel them before I buy.
The Surface will be my next hardware purchase. I wish we could preorder them now.
The infighting and competition between teams is the worst and Silverlight & XNA are the two most recent victims. C# and Silverlight are the two main reasons I chose to be a Windows developer. Without those I'm free to head to other pastures.
I hope they don't have a lot of drama. Just get me to the code.
They need to support hardware-accelerated 3D in C# / Xaml metro apps, not just C++ apps. I don't care if they bring back XNA (as in WP7) or if they integrate 3D into Xaml (as they did with Silverlight 5 and WPF 4). Either way, we can't rely on third-party wrappers around old DirectX libraries. It needs to be officially supported and baked into the tools and libraries.
Microsoft should just host and serve the game updates from its own Azure cloud. Then just pass that hosting fee on to game devs. It's very reasonablly priced and that way devs will only pay for what they use. They will know they are getting a good market rate for the services (since Azure has to stay competitive with Amazon).
I have my money all ready. Just let me know when I can preorder a Surface and take it.
Who is getting on Apple's case for bundling Safari? I won't even go into Chromebook, but Apple has a bigger monopoly in the tablet space than MS ever had in the desktop space. OS makers should be able to bundle whatever browser they want. This is just a case of the EU getting greedy and lookng for way to take cash from anyone who has it.
I'm a big fan of Agile, just not the flavor my company uses. - You can't plan R&D - You can't schedule the next big discovery - You can't hold one person accountable to the estamtes of another person - A developer should be accountable for delivering stories and quality, not tasks
I love metro! People don't always use it to its potential but when they do it's incredible.
I almost never check mail on my laptop anymore. The mail apps that come bundled with Windows Phone 7 are so quick, reliable and easy to use that I use them exclusively. I still write lengthy emails on my laptop, though.
I want more! I admit that the game discovery could be improved on the 360. But I don't want to just play games anymore. What I really want is apps! I want useful apps, fun apps (games), media apps, social apps and educational apps. Most of all I want apps that can interact with each other like the charms feature in Windows 8. I want to be able to take a snapshot in a game, send that over to my image editing app then make it my backdrop or send it to a friend.
Browsers are converging, there is no question about it. I don't doubt that as browsers get closer and closer to standards that jQuery gets slimmer and it's bac-end code gets simpler. So... why will we even need it anymore when regular JS and HTML5 work equally well?
Cross-browser compatibility is the only reason I even use jQuery.
I wonder if that made them really mad.
According to that chart IE hasn't been in the lead since 2008. However, NetApplications and others show IE with a much larger percentage. The HUGE gap in numbers make me doubt all of the numbers.
So true. No matter how good smart phones are, you will always be able to make a bigger more powerful computer for a cheaper price that sits under a desk or in a closet at home. Those of us who want to do more with our computers will always want these "PCs".
I am going to have my team begin development on Win8 applications right away and push for hardware to test and develop on. Hopefully this will trickle down to the rest of the company and the IT staff.
If Surface is a success it will jumpstart the entire Windows ecosystem and check the growth of the iPad. This will only help the OEMs in the end. If it's not a success then it's not a threat to OEMs.
My understanding is that developers can create metro apps using HTML5, C++ or .Net. The latter two use Xaml for the layout. I have written a number of metro apps using the C# + Xaml option. Granted I have only tried them on x86 development machines but I expect that these metro apps will all work on ARM as well.
are more of a burden than a boon. You get very little for your money with more cores when running Android. Put Windows 8 on those cores and now you'll give Microsoft a run for its money... with its own software.
I think how long that takes will depend on the success of Apple and the success of Bill Gates' charity work.
It sounds good on paper but actually getting OpenStack to work on our hardware was a nightmare. It took multiple man months just to get our test machines to fully boot up. We recently switched to Azure and we're not going back any time soon.
I can't wait to get my hands on this! I can't beleive that nobody has solved this problem yet. Hopefully SmartGlass will deliver. i also hope it can talk directly to the XBox through your home router instead of going out to the cloud and back down. We'll see. Oh, and while I'm asking for stuff, let us develop XBox apps using Xaml/C# (or some flavor of Silverlight).