Windows has nothing to do with it. No other music management program pegs the CPU while syncing media over USB. This is purely the fault of Apple programmers not caring or not knowing how to program for Windows.
The school already has AD and uses both Microsoft and Google products.
So instead of spending a few hours, one time, configuring ADFS for Google Apps, your solution is to throw almost everything out and go all in on a Google only solution?!? Awesome!
Microsoft is a tainted brand to a subset of the technical community, not to the overall public.
Interbrand's Best Global Brands list for 2014 has Microsoft as 5th behind Apple, Google, Coke, and IBM (and ahead of GE, Samsung, and Toyota). List is based on : the financial performance of the branded products or services, the role of brand in the purchase decision process and the strength of the brand (whatever that means).
SyncForce has Microsoft #3 brand behind Apple and Google (and ahead of Samsung, Coke, Disney, Toyota, Amazon, Johnson+Johnson, and Mercedes).
While literally true, in practical applications, a compiled native binary client application is worlds more secure than a JavaScript client application.
Every person running the JavaScript client has a full debugger sitting in front of them in which they can examine all of the code and change it at run-time.
To do the same to a native binary requires skill in decompiling and assembly language, which even 99% of most software developers do not have.
Even.NET and Java apps that are trivially easy to decompile compared to a native binary are more secure than JavaScript.
This might have been a decent plan 10 years ago but now they made the OS core decent enough (and secure enough) that replacing the core is not really necessary.
"uphill struggle as the world passes them by" might just be a slight overstatement of MS problems. MS says they have 75% market share for x86 servers (I've no idea if that is a legit statistic). Macs are barely a blip in desktop/laptop market share. Win 8 and Win 8.1, which according to comments in posts like this is the worst OS since Win ME, each has greater market share than all versions of Mac OS combined.
They are obviously very weak on mobile (phone and tablet) but traditional desktops and servers are not being seriously threatened.
Totally different APIs. WinRT for metro. Win32, WinForms, and WPF for desktop. DirectX can be used in both metro and desktop apps.
WinRT has less features because it needs to run in a secure sandbox. WinRT is also more energy efficient due to async nature of most api calls.
WinRT, at least when using XAML for the ui, is similar to WPF (and Silverlight). Very nice M-V-VM architecture.
It will be interesting to see how they handle resizing. Devs could always count on min resolution of 1024x640 or 384x768 in split mode (split mode was only supported if res was >= 1366x768). Now these apps that were never designed for odd resolutions will have to deal with it. Maybe they will just look for special metadata that describes resize capabilities and if metadata not present (old 8.0 and 8.1 apps) the app will not be allowed to be resized too small.
>A year or so ago I complained about Netflix using silverlight. I said that it was a stupid choice and that Silverlight was a Microsoft also-ran. A few people replied that they knew programmers at Netflix and that they were very smart and knew far more than some simpleton like me.
Silverlight was the better solution one year ago. Now there is parity so it is an option. Is that really too hard for you to understand?
Your links shows Q3 2013 iOS sales of 33.8 million versus Windows Phone 9.5, so WP was 28% of iOS (which may or may not include iPads [not clear from the data]);
Did you just put.NET in the does not work pile and Objective-C in the does work? I think I see flying pigs out my window.
You sound like you know nothing about Microsoft APIs. MFC is a C++ framework to make Win32 UIs a little easier to write. WinForms is the managed wrapper for Win32 UIs. WFC has nothing to do with UIs.
The OS team at Microsoft has always been about C and COM. Nothing has changed.
I got my kids the http://www.magiscope.com/ when they were that age. Has a cool light tube to direct light instead of a mirror or light bulb. Has a nice gear-less mechanism for adjusting focus. Uses easy to find threaded objective lenses. Pretty much indestructible..
Microsoft made LightSwitch to meet this same business need of quick-and-dirty database applications - the tag line is "build custom business apps, coding optional".
Skydrive just upped the max file size to 300MB when using the browser interface (I can confirm this because I had some PDFs I used to split but I replaced them with single files this week).
I also believe that they allow 2GB file size for the desktop client.
Surface - so you admit that Microsoft is innovating and trying to create a new market where one didn't previously exist.
Metro - so you don't deny the fact that Microsoft is the first to make a unified UI from 3" screen to 80" screen and all form factors from phone to tablet to pc to gaming. You thinking it is a bad idea does not change the fact that Microsoft is innovating and not just cloning a competitor after "they're sure a market exists",
I would have to agree. In my area, there are 3 Best Buys for the 2 county region of about 700,000 people. They are usually busy. They are well organized. One has a nice musical instrument section and a higher-end home theater section (Magnolia).
I've purchased washer, dryer, laptop, and xbox 360 from them in the last few years. No problems.
The most annoying thing they did was to push their Geek Squad services on the laptop (install anti-virus and remove crapware). I had to say about 5 times "no thanks".
I will never buy appliance or large tv mail-order due to hassles of returning item.
I can confirm this is absolutely the truth at my local Sprint store. They know nothing about Windows Phone 7. I had to show them that it had out-of-the-box syncing to Gmail contacts, email, and calendar (easier to setup than iPhone). Then they say they will wait for dual-core version. Of course WP7 runs very reasonably on single core but that doesn't matter -- they are all Android fan-boys who only think about number of cores and RAM, not about experience.
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Windows has nothing to do with it. No other music management program pegs the CPU while syncing media over USB. This is purely the fault of Apple programmers not caring or not knowing how to program for Windows.
The school already has AD and uses both Microsoft and Google products.
So instead of spending a few hours, one time, configuring ADFS for Google Apps, your solution is to throw almost everything out and go all in on a Google only solution?!? Awesome!
Microsoft is a tainted brand to a subset of the technical community, not to the overall public.
Interbrand's Best Global Brands list for 2014 has Microsoft as 5th behind Apple, Google, Coke, and IBM (and ahead of GE, Samsung, and Toyota). List is based on : the financial performance of the branded products or services, the role of brand in the purchase decision process and the strength of the brand (whatever that means).
SyncForce has Microsoft #3 brand behind Apple and Google (and ahead of Samsung, Coke, Disney, Toyota, Amazon, Johnson+Johnson, and Mercedes).
While literally true, in practical applications, a compiled native binary client application is worlds more secure than a JavaScript client application.
Every person running the JavaScript client has a full debugger sitting in front of them in which they can examine all of the code and change it at run-time.
To do the same to a native binary requires skill in decompiling and assembly language, which even 99% of most software developers do not have.
Even .NET and Java apps that are trivially easy to decompile compared to a native binary are more secure than JavaScript.
This might have been a decent plan 10 years ago but now they made the OS core decent enough (and secure enough) that replacing the core is not really necessary.
"uphill struggle as the world passes them by" might just be a slight overstatement of MS problems. MS says they have 75% market share for x86 servers (I've no idea if that is a legit statistic). Macs are barely a blip in desktop/laptop market share. Win 8 and Win 8.1, which according to comments in posts like this is the worst OS since Win ME, each has greater market share than all versions of Mac OS combined.
They are obviously very weak on mobile (phone and tablet) but traditional desktops and servers are not being seriously threatened.
I remember using virtual desktops on Windows 2000 so that is 14 years ago. Might have been present in NT 3.1/3.5/4.0 but I'm not positive.
Windows API has had notion of multiple desktops per station since at least Windows 2000.
See references here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682573(v=vs.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms687096(v=vs.85).aspx
Totally different APIs. WinRT for metro. Win32, WinForms, and WPF for desktop. DirectX can be used in both metro and desktop apps.
WinRT has less features because it needs to run in a secure sandbox. WinRT is also more energy efficient due to async nature of most api calls.
WinRT, at least when using XAML for the ui, is similar to WPF (and Silverlight). Very nice M-V-VM architecture.
It will be interesting to see how they handle resizing. Devs could always count on min resolution of 1024x640 or 384x768 in split mode (split mode was only supported if res was >= 1366x768). Now these apps that were never designed for odd resolutions will have to deal with it. Maybe they will just look for special metadata that describes resize capabilities and if metadata not present (old 8.0 and 8.1 apps) the app will not be allowed to be resized too small.
Netflix app is better than the browser interface.
Ah shucks, anonymous coward is butt-hurt over simple facts from.the financial statements of a publicly held company.
I've been reading this site since day one. I guess MS is playing the long game when it comes to astroturfing. Yup, that must be it.
Ha ha. Good one. Last 7 quarters with $5 billion operating income per quarter.
M$ Vista Xbone Windoze sucks hard. Ha ha.
http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/TrendedHistory/default.aspx
>A year or so ago I complained about Netflix using silverlight. I said that it was a stupid choice and that Silverlight was a Microsoft also-ran. A few people replied that they knew programmers at Netflix and that they were very smart and knew far more than some simpleton like me.
Silverlight was the better solution one year ago. Now there is parity so it is an option. Is that really too hard for you to understand?
Your links shows Q3 2013 iOS sales of 33.8 million versus Windows Phone 9.5, so WP was 28% of iOS (which may or may not include iPads [not clear from the data]);
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/windows-phone-grows-104-percent-year-over-year-in-q4-2013-abi-research-478672
Windows Phone sold over 20% of what Apple iPhone sold in Q3 of 2013. I think that is very viable.
Did you just put .NET in the does not work pile and Objective-C in the does work? I think I see flying pigs out my window.
You sound like you know nothing about Microsoft APIs. MFC is a C++ framework to make Win32 UIs a little easier to write. WinForms is the managed wrapper for Win32 UIs. WFC has nothing to do with UIs.
The OS team at Microsoft has always been about C and COM. Nothing has changed.
I got my kids the http://www.magiscope.com/ when they were that age. Has a cool light tube to direct light instead of a mirror or light bulb. Has a nice gear-less mechanism for adjusting focus. Uses easy to find threaded objective lenses. Pretty much indestructible..
Microsoft made LightSwitch to meet this same business need of quick-and-dirty database applications - the tag line is "build custom business apps, coding optional".
I believe the relatively new Lightswitch is an attempt to meet this exact need with the added benefit of creating a web deployable front-end.
Skydrive just upped the max file size to 300MB when using the browser interface (I can confirm this because I had some PDFs I used to split but I replaced them with single files this week).
I also believe that they allow 2GB file size for the desktop client.
Surface - so you admit that Microsoft is innovating and trying to create a new market where one didn't previously exist.
Metro - so you don't deny the fact that Microsoft is the first to make a unified UI from 3" screen to 80" screen and all form factors from phone to tablet to pc to gaming. You thinking it is a bad idea does not change the fact that Microsoft is innovating and not just cloning a competitor after "they're sure a market exists",
Surface == first commercial thing of its kind
Kinect == first commercial thing of its kind
Metro - unified UI across Phone, Gaming, Tablet, Desktop == first commercial thing of its kind
In none of those did Microsoft "wait until they're sure a market exists".
Wow. I just read "Digital Exams on the iPad" and it sounds like something Rube Goldberg would come up with if he was still alive.
They go through a ton of trouble to use the iPad only to end up with a printout of a PDF.
So why didn't they just use a printed test to being with?
Talk about using technology for technology's sake alone.
I would have to agree. In my area, there are 3 Best Buys for the 2 county region of about 700,000 people. They are usually busy. They are well organized. One has a nice musical instrument section and a higher-end home theater section (Magnolia).
I've purchased washer, dryer, laptop, and xbox 360 from them in the last few years. No problems.
The most annoying thing they did was to push their Geek Squad services on the laptop (install anti-virus and remove crapware). I had to say about 5 times "no thanks".
I will never buy appliance or large tv mail-order due to hassles of returning item.
Agreed - loving my WP7. Have had Android 2.2, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S --- WP7 suits my needs best.
I can confirm this is absolutely the truth at my local Sprint store. They know nothing about Windows Phone 7. I had to show them that it had out-of-the-box syncing to Gmail contacts, email, and calendar (easier to setup than iPhone). Then they say they will wait for dual-core version. Of course WP7 runs very reasonably on single core but that doesn't matter -- they are all Android fan-boys who only think about number of cores and RAM, not about experience.