I've used OS-X many times, fixing problems and showing my dad how to do things. Every time I go to my parents place my father bitches on about his new mac.... he's been using macs for 20 years and until OS-X came along he loved them. The interface is slick for UNIX.... My father however seems to complain alot less about his windows laptop than he does about his mac now. I can see why, on the whole I would say OS X apps are counter intuitive compared to windows or old mac apps, but its definitely a step forward for unix.
Ah to the modder... it's not off topic. If Nokia chose windows CE and not linux it would have a wealth of work already done for it. Most hardware drivers would already be written for it. It'd be simply a job of gluing all the pieces together , as opposed to making half of them.
This sort of device is alot harder to do with Linux than it is in windows CE... Nokia has basically doubled or trippled the amount of work to deliver such a device to market
I'm sure their choice of platform was not based on technical considerations. Where would they be if they chose windows CE ? Answer: No where in the market they'd be just making up the numbers.
We all know linux sux on anything but stock standard vanilla hardware. Ive yet to find a linux distro that will work with my matrox g500 tv card. In windows no probs.....
Mac generally gets it right but only because they totally control and limit what hardware you can connect to their stuff. I think this is the major problem with most non-windows solutions... and that is windows just works with alot more stuff than other platforms.
I don't think this has anything to do with windows having a superior architecture.... it's really about superior market share, and hence driver support as vendors manufacturing hardware aimed at the consumer market always provide support for windows and then once then after thats perfect they'll think about other OS's.
To me AJAX is just bending over backwards to make a broken architecture seem a little less broken.
It staggers me as to how people can think this stuff is so wonderful. AJAX is the embodiment of everything thats wrong with HTML as an application development medium. It's basically architecture overkill to accomplish the most rudimentary functionality for a more traditional native client side application.
Is this really the way of the future ?! Enourmous amounts of client side javascript, overcomplicated html ? Why ? Just so we can browse to it over the web ? Surely there are better ways.
Why people are so hot for apple and OS X when it's clearly quite restrictive. It's never even occurred to me that I couldn't have as many boots with as many different OS's as my heart desires using either windows or linux. As a Linux user writing to ntfs hasn't seemed like such an undoable thing.
So whats the big deal ? Why is this cause for celebration ?
I mean this is the whole reason why Apple failed in the first place, their totally unrealistic expectations that they could market their restrictive computing model at an exorbitant price. I really don't get why people are now lapping this stuff up.
Most Mac users I meet these days come across to me that their choice of computer is more about fashion than it is about function.
You obviously aren't that familiar with the subject matter.
By default windows update doesn't even prompt you to install patches. You can opt to be prompted before installing patches.
However Windows Update categorises its patches. All patches automatically downloaded or presented to the user are categorised and represented as critical patches. Non-critical patches can only be downloaded by going to the windows update site and electing to download and install them.
Consequently you know that all updates you receive over windows updates should be installed and not installing them will likely result in critical problems of one sort or another down the track.
Bill Gates is a big fan of using Microsoft software (go figure)...
If Bill can't do his job without having to use another company's product that would be a key indicator to him that something is not quite right in the world...
Perhaps he's just waiting for the boys to finish Microsoft's own electronic whiteboard.
This does not surprise me, as an Australian I can say that I've definitely noticed a slide into a very right wing agenda here. The current government is right wing and has an absolute majority in our parliament, meaning they can pretty much pass any law or any bill they want without the chance it might be vetoed by opposition parties.
I've been out of Australia for quite some time, I've found there to be quite a contrast to the Australia I left more than a year ago. I arrived back here just a couple of days before the Cronulla Race Riots. Since then our leaders have been spouting racist generalisations. There has been a large police crack down, the muslim community have made many claims that they are being unfairly targeted, I can personally verify this as on two occasions I've personally witnessed police unfairly targeting muslim men. I've also noticed since the riots (where our flag was used as a symbol of racial hatred), many police cars have had Australian flags mounted to their cars. I can't help thinking this is a sign of solidarity with the rascist mob.
I really don't even know how these riots could have occurred without police complicity. We have Racial Villification Laws here in Australia, that if they were applied that day could have been used to arrest most of the mob that day before any violence even began.
And with all this, in the background we have our detention camps in which whole families including children have been kept in detention. There have been cases where children have basically grown up in detention.
Unless there's a big turn around here I think the future for Australia could be something straight out of Huxely's Brave New World or 1984.
Ever developed your own media format ?
It's $#&(*$# hard, these codecs are the result of years of effort from some very gifted intelligent poeple. You expect people to do this for no reason ?
People develop these media formats want to be well compensated for their efforts, one of the only ways to do this is to get a slice of the pie that is dilevered using their media format.
Duuude.... you can't compare something that you create art with to something you stick in your ears to listen to music. Having said that I think you'll start to see an immediate decline in the digital camera market as phones are now coming out with 2 megapixel cameras, which is good enough for your average happy snap pic. However a camera on a phone is never going to please a serious photographer, they need something you can stick diffent lens on and attach to a tripod etc etc. However, audiophiles.... they wouldn't even want to listen to compressed audio formats such as Itunes or MP3's and they certainly wouldn't want to listen to music through bud headphones.
My phone plays MP3's it has a 1GIG SD card, I can put a few days worth of music on my phone. The sound quality is excellent, with a single button click it plays normal MP3's without ITunes DRM.... I can even play movies on it (16:3 at 1/3 resolution).
My phone costs the same as an apple IPOD, except... it's also my organiser, it makes and takes phone calls, it has a 1.3 megapixel camera on it, and it's about half the size and weight of an IPOD.... It syncs to my computer through wireless.... For me the idea of choosing an IPOD instead of a phone like this one or this one is totally ludicrous.
Apple has already released a phone with ITunes.... it went no where and thats because there's already alot of competition and their phone basically sucked compared to the competitions. IPOD.... ITunes... its a flash in the pan... nothing more.
Sorry but I would say the only people buying IPODs these days are those who want to have one as some sort of pathetic status symbol, or someone who is totally clueless about technology and has seen one too many pieces of Apple marketing.
I'd second that. I can't imagine anything but major corporates on a bureaucracy binge finding this package appropriate. It's really way over featured, and totally beyond the scope of small to medium sized companies which is Microsoft's bread and butter. I don't actually see this campaign doing much as alot of large corporates aren't using MS Exchange anyhow, until recently MS Exchange 2003 it just simply hasn't been able to scale to that level.
The report is a survey of consumer brands, using a sample of 4,732 households, in a sample that size I would say it's quite likely to have some degree of error in it. A sample of business or technically savvy people would of course yield a completely different result.
Hmmmm.... the report actually refutes this. It states...
Microsoft, Sony, Panasonic, And HP Have The Highest Brand Adoption
Nooooo... Apple my friend.
Apple's doesn't actually dominate in many markets at all. Off the top of my head I would say it's dominance would be limited to that of graphic arts, video post production, and of course most recently in walkman devices through it's IPOD range. Whilst I can see it's domination of the (tiny) graphical arts market continuing for some time to come... I think it's IPOD market is extremely short lived. Who is going to buy an IPOD when every mobile phone on the market supplies equivalent functions ?
Apple is the master of blowing away markets... and then blowing it's markets.
The suit is against Microsoft's infringement of Eolas patent on the embedding objects inside of HTML pages... It affects Macromedia Flash, QuickTime, RealOne Player, Acrobat Reader, Sun's Java Virtual Machine, and Windows Media Player among other applications that embed into Web pages.
It only affects IE as Eolas has only filed their suit against Microsoft. Mozilla, Linux, OS-X, and any other OS or browser capable of rendering pages with this content are also going to be in violation of this patent. If Eolas is successful and defeats Microsoft's appeal against the suit, there will be nothing to stop them going after others in violation of this suit....
No doubt your tune will suddenly turn around then....
This suit is really only going to serve Microsoft's interests as it will further complicate and hamper those who would push a world connected by HTML. Something Microsoft is not really that interested in, with the rise of Google they'd really like to see HTML suffer and die and be replaced by their own XAML markup language. Google is heading down the same path looking to create their own browser, based on an extended version of HTML.
OpenDocument is an offshoot of Sun Microsystems Star Office suite.....
The idea of telling Microsoft that they should take direction on their document formats from ODF is a bit like telling Italians that they should go to the US to learn how to make pizza properly....
If anyone is going to take direction from anyone it would be ODF taking it's direction from Microsoft. Again I'll reiterate, any office document standard is meaningless without Microsoft's support.
Who is going to do the teeth pulling ? You're living in a dream, Microsoft's dominance in this area is not going away any time soon. Too many people have far too much investment in their formats, and unlike the odd government body here and their with an idiologistic agenda they will not find any economic rationality in turning their company on it's end to switch from one format to another, the cost of Microsoft products is insignificant to the value of the data they are used to create.
OpenDocument has been developed without any consultation with Microsoft, it's basically a competing format, given Microsoft's position, what would your attitude be to OpenDocument ?
I'm basically suggesting that if the open source community has a problem with the licensing of Microsoft's formats they should be campaigning to force Microsoft to change the licensing on their Office XML formats, by lobbying goverment and/or litigation...
I don't think creating competing formats is the way to go. All it's going to do is see Microsoft compete against them... they're a company that's what company's do, I just basically don't see OpenDocument winning.
Like it or not, it is an undeniable fact that Microsoft has hundreds of millions of clients, each with thousands of documents in their format. On this basis you have to accept that Microsoft by default is the industry standard, they are entirely within their rights to have a very large input on any standards for documents which they have to support in their software in the future.
How meaningful do you think a document standard is going to be if Microsoft because of legacy issues cannot support it ?
What the open source movement should be concentrating on is ensuring Microsoft adopts open standards, ie that their applications store data by default in a format that is interoperable with other vendors packages. If this is not the agenda groups like the OpenDocument Group, and their agenda is really to create standards exclusive of Microsoft and in competition with them, then don't complain about Microsoft's monopolistic practices, because that sort of attitude is only going to ensure that they are perpetuated.
Can anyone supply a single link to a positive review of Microsoft technology from Forbes ?
How those guys manage to maintain their position as informative, insightful, industry analysts when they bag out Microsoft for 10 years and yet to date they're phenomenally successful and yet they still predict doom for them. I think I'll make a prediction here and say Forbes is pretty much irrelevant when it's so clearly incapable of being impartial.
Perhaps you just haven't been around long enough to have seen MS in action, but we've heard that before.
BTW my first computer was a commodor Vic 20... my first exposure to Microsoft was DOS 3.0. I know the history of Microsoft quite thoroughly.
I think Microsoft has become a very different company than what it was in the early 90's. It has a whole lot less to proove, and a whole lot more to lose and it has a revenue stream, and a warchest to acquire the best companies and human resources to deliver the best quality software to market. I can say that before.NET developing on Windows was an absolute nightmare. Since.NET that has changed completely, everything that you thought about Microsoft and it's technical credibility you can forget as of the release of MS.NET.
I think alot of companies out there have been running Java because it was the only suitable technology available at the time the project was started. What will happen though is when new projects are started business will have the opportunity to choose.NET instead of Java.
Java has been out there for 10 years now, I think a comparison between the penetration of Java and.NET technologies will be fair round 2011 when.NET will have been out for 10 years. You are not going to see people switch over from Java to.NET on an existing project, unless its an absolute disaster. I do think many companies will go with a mixed shop and interoperate Java and.NET systems using SOAP/XML, then they will be able to compare the two technologies by examining metrics collected from the management of each project and from that make an informed decision about which way to steer future development.
People will need a better reason than "MS says it's good" to switch away from Photoshop
They can try it out for themselves, or check out some of the demo videos. I think it looks pretty hot, it has most of the filters Photoshop has, plus many other interesting effects like it's use of splines to create effects is really interesting. It looks like it would suit web developers trying to quickly create great effects really quickly for not much effort to get a job quickly out the door, although it also seems to have many fine grained functions which would appeal to artists.
Java applications are still coming into use that have been under test and dev since before there *was* a.NET
I think this is precisely the reason why so many companies are looking at.NET... alot of people have been burnt by Java projects, which have gone way over budget and way over time. I've not had much exposure to development projects in java but it, but my take on it is that it may not necessarily be the technology that's at fault, from what I've seen I think alot of Java developers tend to get a bit carried away and massively over engineer things. Not that I'm against software engineering, I love my UML, class/activity/interaction diagrams, use cases etc etc.... but you have to be pragmatic about this stuff, a dogmatic approach generally leads to failure.
On the other hand I think.NET developers tend to under engineer things... so perhaps all these companies will shift to the other extreme and get burnt yet again. I hope not because I quite like.NET and would rather it not earn the same reputation as what Java seems to have now.
So you may be right... perhaps this swing away from Java in many of these companies will bite them. But I can say there's alot of managers out there right now who hear the word Java and instantaneously have their blood pressure jump a notch.
XP was the first NT based OS to ship with Direct-X, before that Windows 2000 was really only suited to businesses. If you remember back to those days, many people had dual boots to switch Windows 2000 for serious stuff and Windows 9x to play games. With the release of Windows XP came the end of releases for the Windows 9x OS line.... so I'd have to say I disagree with on that one.
Yeah. Photoshop is _soooooo_ dead. I bet Adobe is shaking in their boots
Well it's true they have no immediate worries Expression only got released just this month. But I think they do have cause for concern, I've used Photoshop and I've tried it out. I think it's true that many out there will stick with Photoshop. But given it's integration with.NET development I think pretty much every ASP.NET shop out there will at least consider switching from Photoshop to this product. I'm not a graphic artist, but I know how to use 90% of the functionality available in Photoshop and the Graphic Designer in Expression to me looks like the goods, at glance many of it's features look like it will be better and more powerful to work with than Photoshop.
Slashdot Mirror
I've used OS-X many times, fixing problems and showing my dad how to do things. Every time I go to my parents place my father bitches on about his new mac.... he's been using macs for 20 years and until OS-X came along he loved them. The interface is slick for UNIX.... My father however seems to complain alot less about his windows laptop than he does about his mac now. I can see why, on the whole I would say OS X apps are counter intuitive compared to windows or old mac apps, but its definitely a step forward for unix.
Ah to the modder... it's not off topic. If Nokia chose windows CE and not linux it would have a wealth of work already done for it. Most hardware drivers would already be written for it. It'd be simply a job of gluing all the pieces together , as opposed to making half of them.
This sort of device is alot harder to do with Linux than it is in windows CE... Nokia has basically doubled or trippled the amount of work to deliver such a device to market
I'm sure their choice of platform was not based on technical considerations. Where would they be if they chose windows CE ? Answer: No where in the market they'd be just making up the numbers.
We all know linux sux on anything but stock standard vanilla hardware. Ive yet to find a linux distro that will work with my matrox g500 tv card. In windows no probs.....
Mac generally gets it right but only because they totally control and limit what hardware you can connect to their stuff. I think this is the major problem with most non-windows solutions... and that is windows just works with alot more stuff than other platforms.
I don't think this has anything to do with windows having a superior architecture.... it's really about superior market share, and hence driver support as vendors manufacturing hardware aimed at the consumer market always provide support for windows and then once then after thats perfect they'll think about other OS's.
To me AJAX is just bending over backwards to make a broken architecture seem a little less broken.
It staggers me as to how people can think this stuff is so wonderful. AJAX is the embodiment of everything thats wrong with HTML as an application development medium. It's basically architecture overkill to accomplish the most rudimentary functionality for a more traditional native client side application.
Is this really the way of the future ?! Enourmous amounts of client side javascript, overcomplicated html ? Why ? Just so we can browse to it over the web ? Surely there are better ways.
Why people are so hot for apple and OS X when it's clearly quite restrictive. It's never even occurred to me that I couldn't have as many boots with as many different OS's as my heart desires using either windows or linux. As a Linux user writing to ntfs hasn't seemed like such an undoable thing.
So whats the big deal ? Why is this cause for celebration ?
I mean this is the whole reason why Apple failed in the first place, their totally unrealistic expectations that they could market their restrictive computing model at an exorbitant price. I really don't get why people are now lapping this stuff up.
Most Mac users I meet these days come across to me that their choice of computer is more about fashion than it is about function.
You obviously aren't that familiar with the subject matter.
By default windows update doesn't even prompt you to install patches. You can opt to be prompted before installing patches.
However Windows Update categorises its patches. All patches automatically downloaded or presented to the user are categorised and represented as critical patches. Non-critical patches can only be downloaded by going to the windows update site and electing to download and install them.
Consequently you know that all updates you receive over windows updates should be installed and not installing them will likely result in critical problems of one sort or another down the track.
Bill Gates is a big fan of using Microsoft software (go figure)...
If Bill can't do his job without having to use another company's product that would be a key indicator to him that something is not quite right in the world...
Perhaps he's just waiting for the boys to finish Microsoft's own electronic whiteboard.
This does not surprise me, as an Australian I can say that I've definitely noticed a slide into a very right wing agenda here. The current government is right wing and has an absolute majority in our parliament, meaning they can pretty much pass any law or any bill they want without the chance it might be vetoed by opposition parties.
I've been out of Australia for quite some time, I've found there to be quite a contrast to the Australia I left more than a year ago. I arrived back here just a couple of days before the Cronulla Race Riots. Since then our leaders have been spouting racist generalisations. There has been a large police crack down, the muslim community have made many claims that they are being unfairly targeted, I can personally verify this as on two occasions I've personally witnessed police unfairly targeting muslim men. I've also noticed since the riots (where our flag was used as a symbol of racial hatred), many police cars have had Australian flags mounted to their cars. I can't help thinking this is a sign of solidarity with the rascist mob.
I really don't even know how these riots could have occurred without police complicity. We have Racial Villification Laws here in Australia, that if they were applied that day could have been used to arrest most of the mob that day before any violence even began.
And with all this, in the background we have our detention camps in which whole families including children have been kept in detention. There have been cases where children have basically grown up in detention.
Unless there's a big turn around here I think the future for Australia could be something straight out of Huxely's Brave New World or 1984.
Ever developed your own media format ? It's $#&(*$# hard, these codecs are the result of years of effort from some very gifted intelligent poeple. You expect people to do this for no reason ? People develop these media formats want to be well compensated for their efforts, one of the only ways to do this is to get a slice of the pie that is dilevered using their media format.
Google has registered the domain gbrowser.com.
Duuude.... you can't compare something that you create art with to something you stick in your ears to listen to music. Having said that I think you'll start to see an immediate decline in the digital camera market as phones are now coming out with 2 megapixel cameras, which is good enough for your average happy snap pic. However a camera on a phone is never going to please a serious photographer, they need something you can stick diffent lens on and attach to a tripod etc etc. However, audiophiles.... they wouldn't even want to listen to compressed audio formats such as Itunes or MP3's and they certainly wouldn't want to listen to music through bud headphones.
My phone plays MP3's it has a 1GIG SD card, I can put a few days worth of music on my phone. The sound quality is excellent, with a single button click it plays normal MP3's without ITunes DRM.... I can even play movies on it (16:3 at 1/3 resolution).
My phone costs the same as an apple IPOD, except... it's also my organiser, it makes and takes phone calls, it has a 1.3 megapixel camera on it, and it's about half the size and weight of an IPOD.... It syncs to my computer through wireless.... For me the idea of choosing an IPOD instead of a phone like this one or this one is totally ludicrous.
Apple has already released a phone with ITunes.... it went no where and thats because there's already alot of competition and their phone basically sucked compared to the competitions. IPOD.... ITunes... its a flash in the pan... nothing more.
Sorry but I would say the only people buying IPODs these days are those who want to have one as some sort of pathetic status symbol, or someone who is totally clueless about technology and has seen one too many pieces of Apple marketing.
That said, when phones and mp3 player get to the point where your phone's face is a flat surface, with an OLED or LCD touchscreen covering the entire face of the phone for user input or content.......
Maybe you just don't know whats out there....
I'd second that. I can't imagine anything but major corporates on a bureaucracy binge finding this package appropriate. It's really way over featured, and totally beyond the scope of small to medium sized companies which is Microsoft's bread and butter. I don't actually see this campaign doing much as alot of large corporates aren't using MS Exchange anyhow, until recently MS Exchange 2003 it just simply hasn't been able to scale to that level.
The report is a survey of consumer brands, using a sample of 4,732 households, in a sample that size I would say it's quite likely to have some degree of error in it. A sample of business or technically savvy people would of course yield a completely different result.
Hmmmm.... the report actually refutes this. It states...
Microsoft, Sony, Panasonic, And HP Have The Highest Brand Adoption
Nooooo... Apple my friend.
Apple's doesn't actually dominate in many markets at all. Off the top of my head I would say it's dominance would be limited to that of graphic arts, video post production, and of course most recently in walkman devices through it's IPOD range. Whilst I can see it's domination of the (tiny) graphical arts market continuing for some time to come... I think it's IPOD market is extremely short lived. Who is going to buy an IPOD when every mobile phone on the market supplies equivalent functions ?
Apple is the master of blowing away markets... and then blowing it's markets.
The suit is against Microsoft's infringement of Eolas patent on the embedding objects inside of HTML pages... It affects Macromedia Flash, QuickTime, RealOne Player, Acrobat Reader, Sun's Java Virtual Machine, and Windows Media Player among other applications that embed into Web pages.
It only affects IE as Eolas has only filed their suit against Microsoft. Mozilla, Linux, OS-X, and any other OS or browser capable of rendering pages with this content are also going to be in violation of this patent. If Eolas is successful and defeats Microsoft's appeal against the suit, there will be nothing to stop them going after others in violation of this suit....
No doubt your tune will suddenly turn around then....
This suit is really only going to serve Microsoft's interests as it will further complicate and hamper those who would push a world connected by HTML. Something Microsoft is not really that interested in, with the rise of Google they'd really like to see HTML suffer and die and be replaced by their own XAML markup language. Google is heading down the same path looking to create their own browser, based on an extended version of HTML.
OpenDocument is an offshoot of Sun Microsystems Star Office suite.....
The idea of telling Microsoft that they should take direction on their document formats from ODF is a bit like telling Italians that they should go to the US to learn how to make pizza properly....
If anyone is going to take direction from anyone it would be ODF taking it's direction from Microsoft. Again I'll reiterate, any office document standard is meaningless without Microsoft's support.
Who is going to do the teeth pulling ? You're living in a dream, Microsoft's dominance in this area is not going away any time soon. Too many people have far too much investment in their formats, and unlike the odd government body here and their with an idiologistic agenda they will not find any economic rationality in turning their company on it's end to switch from one format to another, the cost of Microsoft products is insignificant to the value of the data they are used to create.
OpenDocument has been developed without any consultation with Microsoft, it's basically a competing format, given Microsoft's position, what would your attitude be to OpenDocument ?
I'm basically suggesting that if the open source community has a problem with the licensing of Microsoft's formats they should be campaigning to force Microsoft to change the licensing on their Office XML formats, by lobbying goverment and/or litigation...
I don't think creating competing formats is the way to go. All it's going to do is see Microsoft compete against them... they're a company that's what company's do, I just basically don't see OpenDocument winning.
Like it or not, it is an undeniable fact that Microsoft has hundreds of millions of clients, each with thousands of documents in their format. On this basis you have to accept that Microsoft by default is the industry standard, they are entirely within their rights to have a very large input on any standards for documents which they have to support in their software in the future.
How meaningful do you think a document standard is going to be if Microsoft because of legacy issues cannot support it ?
What the open source movement should be concentrating on is ensuring Microsoft adopts open standards, ie that their applications store data by default in a format that is interoperable with other vendors packages. If this is not the agenda groups like the OpenDocument Group, and their agenda is really to create standards exclusive of Microsoft and in competition with them, then don't complain about Microsoft's monopolistic practices, because that sort of attitude is only going to ensure that they are perpetuated.
Hey !!! Lets not let a little thing like economics and business rational get in the way of some really genuine pie in the sky thinking.....
Can anyone supply a single link to a positive review of Microsoft technology from Forbes ?
How those guys manage to maintain their position as informative, insightful, industry analysts when they bag out Microsoft for 10 years and yet to date they're phenomenally successful and yet they still predict doom for them. I think I'll make a prediction here and say Forbes is pretty much irrelevant when it's so clearly incapable of being impartial.
Heard of peer programming.... code reviews ?
Extra resources are never a bad thing...
Perhaps you just haven't been around long enough to have seen MS in action, but we've heard that before.
.NET developing on Windows was an absolute nightmare. Since .NET that has changed completely, everything that you thought about Microsoft and it's technical credibility you can forget as of the release of MS.NET.
BTW my first computer was a commodor Vic 20... my first exposure to Microsoft was DOS 3.0. I know the history of Microsoft quite thoroughly.
I think Microsoft has become a very different company than what it was in the early 90's. It has a whole lot less to proove, and a whole lot more to lose and it has a revenue stream, and a warchest to acquire the best companies and human resources to deliver the best quality software to market. I can say that before
I think alot of companies out there have been running Java because it was the only suitable technology available at the time the project was started. What will happen though is when new projects are started business will have the opportunity to choose .NET instead of Java.
.NET technologies will be fair round 2011 when .NET will have been out for 10 years. You are not going to see people switch over from Java to .NET on an existing project, unless its an absolute disaster. I do think many companies will go with a mixed shop and interoperate Java and .NET systems using SOAP/XML, then they will be able to compare the two technologies by examining metrics collected from the management of each project and from that make an informed decision about which way to steer future development.
Java has been out there for 10 years now, I think a comparison between the penetration of Java and
People will need a better reason than "MS says it's good" to switch away from Photoshop
.NET
.NET... alot of people have been burnt by Java projects, which have gone way over budget and way over time. I've not had much exposure to development projects in java but it, but my take on it is that it may not necessarily be the technology that's at fault, from what I've seen I think alot of Java developers tend to get a bit carried away and massively over engineer things. Not that I'm against software engineering, I love my UML, class/activity/interaction diagrams, use cases etc etc.... but you have to be pragmatic about this stuff, a dogmatic approach generally leads to failure.
.NET developers tend to under engineer things... so perhaps all these companies will shift to the other extreme and get burnt yet again. I hope not because I quite like .NET and would rather it not earn the same reputation as what Java seems to have now.
They can try it out for themselves, or check out some of the demo videos. I think it looks pretty hot, it has most of the filters Photoshop has, plus many other interesting effects like it's use of splines to create effects is really interesting. It looks like it would suit web developers trying to quickly create great effects really quickly for not much effort to get a job quickly out the door, although it also seems to have many fine grained functions which would appeal to artists.
Java applications are still coming into use that have been under test and dev since before there *was* a
I think this is precisely the reason why so many companies are looking at
On the other hand I think
So you may be right... perhaps this swing away from Java in many of these companies will bite them. But I can say there's alot of managers out there right now who hear the word Java and instantaneously have their blood pressure jump a notch.
I would not consider XP to be a major release
.NET development I think pretty much every ASP.NET shop out there will at least consider switching from Photoshop to this product. I'm not a graphic artist, but I know how to use 90% of the functionality available in Photoshop and the Graphic Designer in Expression to me looks like the goods, at glance many of it's features look like it will be better and more powerful to work with than Photoshop.
XP was the first NT based OS to ship with Direct-X, before that Windows 2000 was really only suited to businesses. If you remember back to those days, many people had dual boots to switch Windows 2000 for serious stuff and Windows 9x to play games. With the release of Windows XP came the end of releases for the Windows 9x OS line.... so I'd have to say I disagree with on that one.
Yeah. Photoshop is _soooooo_ dead. I bet Adobe is shaking in their boots
Well it's true they have no immediate worries Expression only got released just this month. But I think they do have cause for concern, I've used Photoshop and I've tried it out. I think it's true that many out there will stick with Photoshop. But given it's integration with