I suspect this is because Nokia or rather Microsoft and Apple realize that by the time they would be through bickering, Android had already taken the market. I expect Nokia to sue everyone with even a hint of mob* and Android in their product portfolio about the same time as Nokia manages to get some crappy WP7 phones out the door.
With Nokia Microsoft sure speed up the process. They only had to announce a cooperation for the Nokia stock to begin falling like a rock. I think even investors is starting to see the pattern here and what the result of being a Microsoft parter is.
Windows 7 is not a good OS and everybody do not like it, they just like it better than Vista. Its better than Windows Vista and when people compare them side by side, Windows 7 wins but thats because Vista was such a turd, not because Windows 7 is any better than XP. Windows 7 is as plagued by security issues as any of its predecessors and just as susceptible to the famous bit-rot of Windows XP. Ive seen countless people discover that firsthand, fresh install runs fine but half a year later its time to reinstall it all.
Windows 8 isnt an OS, its atleast two completely different OS with similar UI and hopefully a cross-platform development kit. Older stuff will only run on one of them so the confusion will be rather hilarious to watch once people realize its not backwards compatible at all in one of the versions.
I had my hopes up that Windows 8 would be a cleanup of Windows 7 and some simplification and deprecation of all the old cruft still running the show in Windows. What we get are the same old crap but with yet another UI ontop of it and new places to hide all the various settings and dialogs.
If Windows 7 is your answer you take your questions right out of Microsofts glassy marketing material.
Microsoft do not support Linux. They refrain from suing the asses off of Mono for an unspecified amount of time but many pieces wont even get that promise.
Moonlight is also horribly broken and has always been so its not something you can use, especially not in a business setting.
A start would be if Microsoft would make a silverligth plugin for Linux.
Well, mobile phones and tabs is where its at right now. Tomorrow? Not a friggin clue but it sure wont be PC computers. Choosing a platform locked tightly and bolted on with titanium bolts onto the PC is insane in this situation.
Java was actually a good example of where the market has been striving for the last 20 years. The market wants cross platform solutions but some players like Microsoft has been fighting against it tooth and nail. Javascript and html5 has the potential to be just that solution the market wants so now Microsoft has to embrace and extend it to pieces. Silverligth wont fit into that fight so its obvious it will be left in the dust.
Cross platform must mean something completely different to you than it does according to the dictionary. Who the fuck cares about desktops these days. Will you come and help me explain to my boss why his shiny new phone or pad wont work with our brand spanking new 30 million $ website because we made the bad decision of using Silverligt?
The issue is that its obvious where Microsoft is heading, away from Silverlight and.Net. It gives the same effect as when Elop went out in public proclaiming loud and clear that Nokias Symbian was dead, people stop developing for it and customers stops buying it. As a Silverlight developer you know your days are numbered, you just dont know what that number is.
Silverlight could have been a success if only it had been cross platform. No sane person who screwed up with ActiveX and IE6 would touch Silverlight with a ten foot pole once it was clear it was a Windows only plugin without any support on anything but a PC. Granted there was a Mac plugin but nobody took it seriously. Had they released Linux support it would atleast have appered to be platform agnostic.
Silverlight was never cross platform. Two platforms do not make something cross platform. Unofficial support from a third party does not make the original cross platform. Thats like calling Windows applications cross platform because of Wine.
"Sounds like a pipe dream. Microsoft is building strategic alliances with cell phone manufacturers (eg. Nokia) and renewing their commitment to the smart phone market that they neglected since they dropped the ball on Windows CE back when Gates was preaching "Windows Everywhere". I wouldn't count Microsoft out just yet."
Nokia is going bust in a hurry. Look up its just released earnings report. Nothing short of a complete miracle can save Nokia now. Looking at current WP7 sales figures one would expect Jesus showing up somewhere for that to happen.
Microsoft is alienating the cell phone manufacturers by suing them all over and forcing them to take on very punishing patent extortion racket license. Strategic alliance do not mean the same to you as to me. At the same Microsoft is gearing up to battle it out with mobile operators by going all skype, making WP7 a platform that takes away mobile carriers income, not encourage it.
Unless things change profoundly in Microsoft land they are toast except for two areas, Office and WIndows. Everything else is just sinkholes where money is tossed instead of paid out in dividends to the shareholders. Since the stock has tanked, i dont think that can keep up forever.
The problem is that whatever Microsoft buys gets tainted by their bad rep amongst users and soon abandoned. Just look at how many jumped ship from Yahoo as soon as Bing took over their search results.
Bing has about 8% in the US and about 3% worldwide according to statcounter and most other sources. 30% is a dream number bing hasnt even been close to. I have never ever heard of seodesignsolutions before but as their numbers are very different from the established players i call bullshit on their statistics until correlated from more respected sources.
For all we know seodesignsolutions might just be a shell setup by Bing PHBs trying to get atleast one payment for good performance in their lifetime.
Its overly simplistic to put the blame on Ballmer since it was Bill Gates that got Microsoft under close scrutiny from monopoly enforcement agencies all over the world. Bill Gates was also the one that won Microsoft the biggest EU fine in history for Bills predatory practices.
What Ballmer has done is followed in Bill Gates footstep with so-so products sold by extremely hard marketing and very shoddy business practices. If anything Ballmer is just a bleaker version of Bill. The return of Bill Gates would just be about more pressure on OEMs, more underhanded deals and more of using the monopoly again.
Personally i would love it if Bill Gates took the helm as it would make Microsoft become irrelevant even faster than today. The mobile and computing industry at large is right now liquid mercury and the tighter Microsoft squeezes the sooner it will slip.
You know what? I think Buzz works very well and i like it, much because of the people using it. Instead of a crazed cacophony of updates i couldn't care less about i can read interesting stuff from people i know wont degenerate into pre-pubertal shouting.
"You don't get extra points for being the nice guy (most of the time)."
Google is trying to be the exception in that regard and thats why i hope they will succeed. Wouldnt it be nice if a business could survive without being a total prick like Microsoft? If Google comes out ontop despite being bullied by the likes of Microsoft and Facebook perhaps other companies become inspired to run a business without raping their customers at every chance.
I would like that but i guess some people really like being taken by Ballmer from behind chanting Developers! Developers! Developers! while emptying their wallets.
I have never ever used a product written in either.net or Mono that wasn't dog slow, used tons of memory and was about as stable as an upside down pyramid.
Couple that with a litigious Microsoft running around suing everyone from Tomtom to Barnes and Noble, right now, and the benefits if any do not in any way outweigh the cons. Its just not worth it because its not any better than anything else.
I think its a pretty bold theory considering black holes arent even proven to exist yet. I think many of these questions wont be answered until someone can come up with a better understanding of gravity.
But we would have to invent some awkward way of harnessing that energy first. Why not put up a complicated system of mirrors that uses intricate electronics and motors to follow the fusion reactor, beaming some of the light at a tower of sorts? Then we use an inefficient turbine to drive a generator?
We could of course do as the Chinese and use photovoltics but that's not sexy.
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I would rather see msft as a pinapple up the a**
No means no!
I suspect this is because Nokia or rather Microsoft and Apple realize that by the time they would be through bickering, Android had already taken the market. I expect Nokia to sue everyone with even a hint of mob* and Android in their product portfolio about the same time as Nokia manages to get some crappy WP7 phones out the door.
I havent seen the quality of searches slip at all in Google Search. Its still way ahead of the rest.
With Nokia Microsoft sure speed up the process. They only had to announce a cooperation for the Nokia stock to begin falling like a rock. I think even investors is starting to see the pattern here and what the result of being a Microsoft parter is.
Windows 7 is not a good OS and everybody do not like it, they just like it better than Vista. Its better than Windows Vista and when people compare them side by side, Windows 7 wins but thats because Vista was such a turd, not because Windows 7 is any better than XP. Windows 7 is as plagued by security issues as any of its predecessors and just as susceptible to the famous bit-rot of Windows XP. Ive seen countless people discover that firsthand, fresh install runs fine but half a year later its time to reinstall it all.
Windows 8 isnt an OS, its atleast two completely different OS with similar UI and hopefully a cross-platform development kit. Older stuff will only run on one of them so the confusion will be rather hilarious to watch once people realize its not backwards compatible at all in one of the versions.
I had my hopes up that Windows 8 would be a cleanup of Windows 7 and some simplification and deprecation of all the old cruft still running the show in Windows. What we get are the same old crap but with yet another UI ontop of it and new places to hide all the various settings and dialogs.
If Windows 7 is your answer you take your questions right out of Microsofts glassy marketing material.
Microsoft do not support Linux. They refrain from suing the asses off of Mono for an unspecified amount of time but many pieces wont even get that promise.
Moonlight is also horribly broken and has always been so its not something you can use, especially not in a business setting.
A start would be if Microsoft would make a silverligth plugin for Linux.
Well, mobile phones and tabs is where its at right now. Tomorrow? Not a friggin clue but it sure wont be PC computers. Choosing a platform locked tightly and bolted on with titanium bolts onto the PC is insane in this situation.
Java was actually a good example of where the market has been striving for the last 20 years. The market wants cross platform solutions but some players like Microsoft has been fighting against it tooth and nail. Javascript and html5 has the potential to be just that solution the market wants so now Microsoft has to embrace and extend it to pieces. Silverligth wont fit into that fight so its obvious it will be left in the dust.
Cross platform must mean something completely different to you than it does according to the dictionary. Who the fuck cares about desktops these days. Will you come and help me explain to my boss why his shiny new phone or pad wont work with our brand spanking new 30 million $ website because we made the bad decision of using Silverligt?
If my boss cares, i care.
The issue is that its obvious where Microsoft is heading, away from Silverlight and .Net. It gives the same effect as when Elop went out in public proclaiming loud and clear that Nokias Symbian was dead, people stop developing for it and customers stops buying it. As a Silverlight developer you know your days are numbered, you just dont know what that number is.
I suspect many of them are former VB developers who really liked being screwed over the first time. Now they get to go a second round.
Silverlight could have been a success if only it had been cross platform. No sane person who screwed up with ActiveX and IE6 would touch Silverlight with a ten foot pole once it was clear it was a Windows only plugin without any support on anything but a PC. Granted there was a Mac plugin but nobody took it seriously. Had they released Linux support it would atleast have appered to be platform agnostic.
Silverlight was never cross platform. Two platforms do not make something cross platform. Unofficial support from a third party does not make the original cross platform. Thats like calling Windows applications cross platform because of Wine.
"Sounds like a pipe dream. Microsoft is building strategic alliances with cell phone manufacturers (eg. Nokia) and renewing their commitment to the smart phone market that they neglected since they dropped the ball on Windows CE back when Gates was preaching "Windows Everywhere". I wouldn't count Microsoft out just yet."
Nokia is going bust in a hurry. Look up its just released earnings report. Nothing short of a complete miracle can save Nokia now. Looking at current WP7 sales figures one would expect Jesus showing up somewhere for that to happen.
Microsoft is alienating the cell phone manufacturers by suing them all over and forcing them to take on very punishing patent extortion racket license. Strategic alliance do not mean the same to you as to me. At the same Microsoft is gearing up to battle it out with mobile operators by going all skype, making WP7 a platform that takes away mobile carriers income, not encourage it.
Unless things change profoundly in Microsoft land they are toast except for two areas, Office and WIndows. Everything else is just sinkholes where money is tossed instead of paid out in dividends to the shareholders. Since the stock has tanked, i dont think that can keep up forever.
Exactly my thought, those who long for Gates must have very short memories.
Xbox still has a long way to go before its profitable. There was some serious money sunk into it for a very long time before it even broke even.
The problem is that whatever Microsoft buys gets tainted by their bad rep amongst users and soon abandoned. Just look at how many jumped ship from Yahoo as soon as Bing took over their search results.
Bing has about 8% in the US and about 3% worldwide according to statcounter and most other sources. 30% is a dream number bing hasnt even been close to. I have never ever heard of seodesignsolutions before but as their numbers are very different from the established players i call bullshit on their statistics until correlated from more respected sources.
For all we know seodesignsolutions might just be a shell setup by Bing PHBs trying to get atleast one payment for good performance in their lifetime.
Its overly simplistic to put the blame on Ballmer since it was Bill Gates that got Microsoft under close scrutiny from monopoly enforcement agencies all over the world. Bill Gates was also the one that won Microsoft the biggest EU fine in history for Bills predatory practices.
What Ballmer has done is followed in Bill Gates footstep with so-so products sold by extremely hard marketing and very shoddy business practices. If anything Ballmer is just a bleaker version of Bill. The return of Bill Gates would just be about more pressure on OEMs, more underhanded deals and more of using the monopoly again.
Personally i would love it if Bill Gates took the helm as it would make Microsoft become irrelevant even faster than today. The mobile and computing industry at large is right now liquid mercury and the tighter Microsoft squeezes the sooner it will slip.
I take my hat off and bow deeply to you sir! Reality always trumps irony.
You know what? I think Buzz works very well and i like it, much because of the people using it. Instead of a crazed cacophony of updates i couldn't care less about i can read interesting stuff from people i know wont degenerate into pre-pubertal shouting.
"You don't get extra points for being the nice guy (most of the time)."
Google is trying to be the exception in that regard and thats why i hope they will succeed. Wouldnt it be nice if a business could survive without being a total prick like Microsoft? If Google comes out ontop despite being bullied by the likes of Microsoft and Facebook perhaps other companies become inspired to run a business without raping their customers at every chance.
I would like that but i guess some people really like being taken by Ballmer from behind chanting Developers! Developers! Developers! while emptying their wallets.
Cant help but thinking of this little gem. Arent we a bit backwards today?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Act
Read under the Alternatives section, black holes are still in dispute in the scientific community.
I have never ever used a product written in either .net or Mono that wasn't dog slow, used tons of memory and was about as stable as an upside down pyramid.
Couple that with a litigious Microsoft running around suing everyone from Tomtom to Barnes and Noble, right now, and the benefits if any do not in any way outweigh the cons. Its just not worth it because its not any better than anything else.
I think its a pretty bold theory considering black holes arent even proven to exist yet. I think many of these questions wont be answered until someone can come up with a better understanding of gravity.
But we would have to invent some awkward way of harnessing that energy first. Why not put up a complicated system of mirrors that uses intricate electronics and motors to follow the fusion reactor, beaming some of the light at a tower of sorts? Then we use an inefficient turbine to drive a generator?
We could of course do as the Chinese and use photovoltics but that's not sexy.