There is no technology in Longhorn that will convince people to start developing windows-only applications.
Does there need to be? Seems like the majority of commercial software vendors already only develop for windows. Of course it's not going to convince the current exceptions (Adobe, Oracle, IBM) but then nothing short of a gun to the heads of the CEO's of those companies COULD convince them.
As it is, I look at all of the people who have written applications to.NET who are shooting themselves given the rise of Apple, Linux, and other non-Microsoft platforms (cell phones, etc.).
Why? Excepting Linux and OSX there pretty much are no other operating systems that have any signifigant user base. Linux users are not exactly known for rushing out to pay for software. And I don't think there are enough people using apple computers to keep ISVs up at night wishing they had went cross platform, either.
Some combination of Java and/or the Web is the way to go for the forseeable future.
I can certainly see benifit in going towards the web, just because of the ease of rolling out changes across an enterprise (update the server, everyone is updated). The cross platform there is just a (nice) side effect, though.
Just to let you know, though, as soon as OSX or Linux have the market share to make it profitable to develop for them is the day I start developing software for them.
Neal, when you post an article like this the only thing anyone cares about is what OS (and especially if it was microsoft) got ownz0red. Please try to put this information in the summary. Thank you.
For me the attraction to the iPod (or at least hard drive MP3 players) is being able to put my entire music collection on it. I have about 19 gigs of music files and it's hard to get a decent subset of that because I'll inevitably want to hear a song I didn't put on the 1 gig sized playlist over the course of a day. Add that to the fact that I'm LAZY and don't want to waste time building a playlist every night and the "fire and forget" nature of the hard drive players become must have.
Excellent article and I suggest any consultant or person thinking of being one RTFA.
One thing I would like to add, though, is a fixed bid tip. The author admits he does not have much experience with this type of work and omits one important detail that can save a lot of headache for both parties and keep cashflow going during a large project.
Always try to do a fixed bid project with milestone based payments. This keeps the customer happy since they get to see the code at intervals, gauge the progress, and offer feedback. It lets you get paid as you go and helps you use customer feedback to make changes (and no matter how good the spec, there will be) as you develop.
Well, I guess what feels right is very subjective. I've used both, and OpenOffice "feels" a lot better to me. But I generally think that open source software feels better than the big expensive shrink wrapped applications that hassle me with seven page EULAs, install a bunch of copy protection crap and generally assume that I'm guilty of copyright infringement when I'm not.
This is certainly not the feel that your parent poster was talking about and definately not the feel that most software consumers care about. If it was, we'd all be running Linux and the "big company in Redmond" would either be Nintento US or TietoEnator.
Simply wishing that everyone shared the same hatred for MicroSoft is not going to put linux on very many desktops.
You think an employee who is working 85 hours a week is gonna get fired for saying he has errands and needs two hours for lunch? People stupid enough to work 85 hours a week on a salary are not that easy to come by. I'd wager they're valuable enough to not get fired over that.
Ever thought of looking for another job before just quitting? It works pretty good, and is usally what I do. See, companies that hire know you need two weeks and you can use THAT time to work your notice so you don't even have to burn a bridge at the old job.
And this is a great case where real, working DRM would come in exremely handy. Imagine if, yes you could get a copy of a book free of charge from your government, but that it would only last two weeks. Imagine that the government has purchased a number of licenses (copies) just like every other library and that the authors are still paid for their works. A public library using DRM would not be screwing you out of anything (hey, it's FREE) and would still let creators profit from works they produce.
Before anyone says it, though: Yes, copyrights do last WAY to long. Yes, that needs to be fixed and no amount of Disney releasing patents for using air to launch fireworks is going to change the fact that they buy an extension from the US congress everytime they are in danger of losing micky.
No. The enhancement for ActiveX was the new dialog which defaults to 'No' and gives options to always ignore content from specific providers. It did not do anything but make it more difficult for a user to install an ActiveX control.
On the other hand, if you use PostgreSQL, you simply hire someone to maintain the old version and backport any helpfull new features. And if you want to sell your code, you just bundle your own version of PostgreSQL with it.
Would it not be more cost effective to hire someone to convert the data to a new format? Getting relational data between different databases is mostly trival. Code changes not so much, but if the codebase accessing the database was written in house my guess is that it's much quicker to change that known code to adapt to the nuances of the new database than to port over unfamiliar database guts.
Well, if Apple required me to download Safari to visit their music store from a windows environment we'd be comparing apples to apples (sorry). This is not the same thing.
It's even worse. They require you to download iTunes. Which requires QuickTime. Which is a virus in and of itself that is only eclipsed in evil content(TM) by the Real(TM) crapware.
Not true. OS/2 3.0 was on shelves well before Windows 95. When it shipped windows 3.11 users were still getting floppies with trumpet winsock to get connected.
What I did was bought a big pack of black poster board and cut out mini mousepads. When they get a little dirty a cut out a new one. Better than a bulky mousepad, and very inexpensive.
Heh you know if this was a story about some windows deficiency and there was a post that said "Install Linux Problem Solved" it would be +5 funny before the GNAA even managed to post.
But this is a story about an ALLEGED weakness in Linux, soget with the fucking program and deride the original article submitter while showing that there are a plethora of open source solutions that will easily do that job AND suck you off simultaneously. And knead your balls, too.
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There is no technology in Longhorn that will convince people to start developing windows-only applications.
.NET who are shooting themselves given the rise of Apple, Linux, and other non-Microsoft platforms (cell phones, etc.).
Does there need to be? Seems like the majority of commercial software vendors already only develop for windows. Of course it's not going to convince the current exceptions (Adobe, Oracle, IBM) but then nothing short of a gun to the heads of the CEO's of those companies COULD convince them.
As it is, I look at all of the people who have written applications to
Why? Excepting Linux and OSX there pretty much are no other operating systems that have any signifigant user base. Linux users are not exactly known for rushing out to pay for software. And I don't think there are enough people using apple computers to keep ISVs up at night wishing they had went cross platform, either.
Some combination of Java and/or the Web is the way to go for the forseeable future.
I can certainly see benifit in going towards the web, just because of the ease of rolling out changes across an enterprise (update the server, everyone is updated). The cross platform there is just a (nice) side effect, though.
Just to let you know, though, as soon as OSX or Linux have the market share to make it profitable to develop for them is the day I start developing software for them.
Neal, when you post an article like this the only thing anyone cares about is what OS (and especially if it was microsoft) got ownz0red. Please try to put this information in the summary. Thank you.
Not quite. Background tasks did still work. Just the UI message queue was locked.
For me the attraction to the iPod (or at least hard drive MP3 players) is being able to put my entire music collection on it. I have about 19 gigs of music files and it's hard to get a decent subset of that because I'll inevitably want to hear a song I didn't put on the 1 gig sized playlist over the course of a day. Add that to the fact that I'm LAZY and don't want to waste time building a playlist every night and the "fire and forget" nature of the hard drive players become must have.
Excellent article and I suggest any consultant or person thinking of being one RTFA.
One thing I would like to add, though, is a fixed bid tip. The author admits he does not have much experience with this type of work and omits one important detail that can save a lot of headache for both parties and keep cashflow going during a large project.
Always try to do a fixed bid project with milestone based payments. This keeps the customer happy since they get to see the code at intervals, gauge the progress, and offer feedback. It lets you get paid as you go and helps you use customer feedback to make changes (and no matter how good the spec, there will be) as you develop.
Well, I guess what feels right is very subjective. I've used both, and OpenOffice "feels" a lot better to me. But I generally think that open source software feels better than the big expensive shrink wrapped applications that hassle me with seven page EULAs, install a bunch of copy protection crap and generally assume that I'm guilty of copyright infringement when I'm not.
This is certainly not the feel that your parent poster was talking about and definately not the feel that most software consumers care about. If it was, we'd all be running Linux and the "big company in Redmond" would either be Nintento US or TietoEnator.
Simply wishing that everyone shared the same hatred for MicroSoft is not going to put linux on very many desktops.
It's an interesting idea, but it's probably a matter of short order before MS starts to use this to cut out non-MS sites.
It's probably a matter of shorter order before zealot run sites add do the same for links to "Micro$oft".
You think an employee who is working 85 hours a week is gonna get fired for saying he has errands and needs two hours for lunch? People stupid enough to work 85 hours a week on a salary are not that easy to come by. I'd wager they're valuable enough to not get fired over that.
Ever thought of looking for another job before just quitting? It works pretty good, and is usally what I do. See, companies that hire know you need two weeks and you can use THAT time to work your notice so you don't even have to burn a bridge at the old job.
And this is a great case where real, working DRM would come in exremely handy. Imagine if, yes you could get a copy of a book free of charge from your government, but that it would only last two weeks. Imagine that the government has purchased a number of licenses (copies) just like every other library and that the authors are still paid for their works. A public library using DRM would not be screwing you out of anything (hey, it's FREE) and would still let creators profit from works they produce.
Before anyone says it, though: Yes, copyrights do last WAY to long. Yes, that needs to be fixed and no amount of Disney releasing patents for using air to launch fireworks is going to change the fact that they buy an extension from the US congress everytime they are in danger of losing micky.
no, he bought it on ebay.
Southpark.
Also I notice MS bought SAP.
They did?
No. The enhancement for ActiveX was the new dialog which defaults to 'No' and gives options to always ignore content from specific providers. It did not do anything but make it more difficult for a user to install an ActiveX control.
Those girlscouts are throwing up gang signs! What's going on here?
On the other hand, if you use PostgreSQL, you simply hire someone to maintain the old version and backport any helpfull new features. And if you want to sell your code, you just bundle your own version of PostgreSQL with it.
Would it not be more cost effective to hire someone to convert the data to a new format? Getting relational data between different databases is mostly trival. Code changes not so much, but if the codebase accessing the database was written in house my guess is that it's much quicker to change that known code to adapt to the nuances of the new database than to port over unfamiliar database guts.
Yes, was just about to mention that. Suggest everyone go check them out. RMS gets bitchslapped quite nicely.
Well, if Apple required me to download Safari to visit their music store from a windows environment we'd be comparing apples to apples (sorry). This is not the same thing.
It's even worse. They require you to download iTunes. Which requires QuickTime. Which is a virus in and of itself that is only eclipsed in evil content(TM) by the Real(TM) crapware.
Warp (not connect) was internet ready about of the box and beat win95 by nearly a year.
BUT, it's not about the OS, it's about the applications.
Not true. OS/2 3.0 was on shelves well before Windows 95. When it shipped windows 3.11 users were still getting floppies with trumpet winsock to get connected.
What I did was bought a big pack of black poster board and cut out mini mousepads. When they get a little dirty a cut out a new one. Better than a bulky mousepad, and very inexpensive.
Heh you know if this was a story about some windows deficiency and there was a post that said "Install Linux Problem Solved" it would be +5 funny before the GNAA even managed to post.
But this is a story about an ALLEGED weakness in Linux, soget with the fucking program and deride the original article submitter while showing that there are a plethora of open source solutions that will easily do that job AND suck you off simultaneously. And knead your balls, too.
Every five minutes? Likely every 30 seconds. I think you might be right about the reason, though.
No really, you have, haven't you? You can say yes, and tell me that it' beside the point, but at least say yes.
You've watched way to many star trek episodes. I'll be you even know how to speak klingon.