MS has lost it all! Time to move on?
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Grasshopper.iics wrote:
MS has officially stopped supporting XNA
Seriously? Geez, I'm really getting tired of watching Microsoft jump around shouting "Developers Developers Developers", constantly creating some halfassed technology (Object Spaces is one of those things that comes to mind) only to have then discontinue their bloated crap when, after all the flash and glitter, it becomes clear that Microsoft either stole the idea from others, the implementation sucks, or something better is already out there, or all of the above. Marc
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it becomes clear that Microsoft either stole the idea from others
http://hackaday.com/2011/07/14/did-microsoft-steal-the-kinect/[^]
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Marc Clifton wrote:
it becomes clear that Microsoft either stole the idea from others
http://hackaday.com/2011/07/14/did-microsoft-steal-the-kinect/[^]
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Steve Balmer is just fit as a pole-dancer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc[^]
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Jesus christ, and he's running Microsoft? Explains a lot :omg:
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http://www.scroogled.com/[^] I learnt a lesson in childhood which I follow like a religion. To make a line shorter, all you have to do is draw a bigger line. So if you want to beat competition, offer better product services. Rather than trying to be innovative, they tried to follow Mr. Steve Jobs way. Kill desktop and shift to tablets. Try to get a pie in every segment where others are doing well. Bad. Windows 8 tells the story. So MS has started crying like a child and shouting foul. Have we forgotten how you managed Netscape? I am convinced by every passing days that MS has it's golden days over. Android, Unity, Processing framework is looking more promising than any MS products. MS has officially stopped supporting XNA and God knows what else. Instead of spending millions in such stupid campaigns, if they had focused on spending constructively on developers, they would have had a better probability of catching up. I can't imagine life without Youtube, Gmail, Chrome and Google. It is same for Windows OS , Office Suite and C#. But as you have decided to dump products that I need, I have decided to move on. Someone give some sense to Mr. Steve Ballmer.
Grasshopper.iics wrote:
I am convinced by every passing days that MS has it's golden days over. Android, Unity, Processing framework is looking more promising than any MS products. MS has officially stopped supporting XNA and God knows what else.
They kill things to usher us like sheep to the next thing they want to sell us and I don't really like being treated like a fool. If you want to sell me something, you better don't try tricks like that. What? So i'm not in the group your marketing has targeted? Which one might that be? Inexperienced, rich and gullible? Learning the details of yet another way to do the same stuff as before is not very productive. It's not even good learning, since it mostly concerns the details of something that will be replaced as quickly as it came. Adapting code that should have been reusable is not very productive. By the time you have adapted (first yourself and then the code), they will already be preparing the next better than ever changes. Not much time left to actually produce something.
Grasshopper.iics wrote:
But as you have decided to dump products that I need, I have decided to move on.
If your ambition goes further than brainless little 'apps' (or anything else you can slap together in a few days or weeks), then you have no other choice. Just be careful not to end up the same way with someone else's next great thing. In many ways I have gone back to the way things were done in 1990. Those things used to work, have remained stable over all those years and will continue to work in the future because there are far less dependencies some company could use against us.
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Jesus christ, and he's running Microsoft? Explains a lot :omg:
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http://www.scroogled.com/[^] I learnt a lesson in childhood which I follow like a religion. To make a line shorter, all you have to do is draw a bigger line. So if you want to beat competition, offer better product services. Rather than trying to be innovative, they tried to follow Mr. Steve Jobs way. Kill desktop and shift to tablets. Try to get a pie in every segment where others are doing well. Bad. Windows 8 tells the story. So MS has started crying like a child and shouting foul. Have we forgotten how you managed Netscape? I am convinced by every passing days that MS has it's golden days over. Android, Unity, Processing framework is looking more promising than any MS products. MS has officially stopped supporting XNA and God knows what else. Instead of spending millions in such stupid campaigns, if they had focused on spending constructively on developers, they would have had a better probability of catching up. I can't imagine life without Youtube, Gmail, Chrome and Google. It is same for Windows OS , Office Suite and C#. But as you have decided to dump products that I need, I have decided to move on. Someone give some sense to Mr. Steve Ballmer.
"When you buy an Android app from the Google app store, they give the app maker your full name, email address and the neighborhood where you live. This occurs without clear warning every single time you buy an app." Actually, I don't, because I don't use my real name for anything on the Internet, and I leave geolocation tools switched off unless I want to use them. This kind of slur marketing really pisses me off. If people like other people's products better than yours, it means you have to improve your products, not bad-mouth the competition, but the incompetent always spend all their time on devising scum-level political bull to drag others down, rather than on learning to do better and pulling themselves up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Grasshopper.iics wrote:
I am convinced by every passing days that MS has it's golden days over. Android, Unity, Processing framework is looking more promising than any MS products. MS has officially stopped supporting XNA and God knows what else.
They kill things to usher us like sheep to the next thing they want to sell us and I don't really like being treated like a fool. If you want to sell me something, you better don't try tricks like that. What? So i'm not in the group your marketing has targeted? Which one might that be? Inexperienced, rich and gullible? Learning the details of yet another way to do the same stuff as before is not very productive. It's not even good learning, since it mostly concerns the details of something that will be replaced as quickly as it came. Adapting code that should have been reusable is not very productive. By the time you have adapted (first yourself and then the code), they will already be preparing the next better than ever changes. Not much time left to actually produce something.
Grasshopper.iics wrote:
But as you have decided to dump products that I need, I have decided to move on.
If your ambition goes further than brainless little 'apps' (or anything else you can slap together in a few days or weeks), then you have no other choice. Just be careful not to end up the same way with someone else's next great thing. In many ways I have gone back to the way things were done in 1990. Those things used to work, have remained stable over all those years and will continue to work in the future because there are far less dependencies some company could use against us.
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CDP1802 wrote:
In many ways I have gone back to the way things were done in 1990. Those things used to work, have remained stable over all those years and will continue to work in the future because there are far less dependencies some company could use against us.
:thumbsup:
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"When you buy an Android app from the Google app store, they give the app maker your full name, email address and the neighborhood where you live. This occurs without clear warning every single time you buy an app." Actually, I don't, because I don't use my real name for anything on the Internet, and I leave geolocation tools switched off unless I want to use them. This kind of slur marketing really pisses me off. If people like other people's products better than yours, it means you have to improve your products, not bad-mouth the competition, but the incompetent always spend all their time on devising scum-level political bull to drag others down, rather than on learning to do better and pulling themselves up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"When you buy an Android app from the Google app store, they give the app maker your full name, email address and the neighborhood where you live. This occurs without clear warning every single time you buy an app." Actually, I don't, because I don't use my real name for anything on the Internet, and I leave geolocation tools switched off unless I want to use them. This kind of slur marketing really pisses me off. If people like other people's products better than yours, it means you have to improve your products, not bad-mouth the competition, but the incompetent always spend all their time on devising scum-level political bull to drag others down, rather than on learning to do better and pulling themselves up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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http://www.scroogled.com/[^] I learnt a lesson in childhood which I follow like a religion. To make a line shorter, all you have to do is draw a bigger line. So if you want to beat competition, offer better product services. Rather than trying to be innovative, they tried to follow Mr. Steve Jobs way. Kill desktop and shift to tablets. Try to get a pie in every segment where others are doing well. Bad. Windows 8 tells the story. So MS has started crying like a child and shouting foul. Have we forgotten how you managed Netscape? I am convinced by every passing days that MS has it's golden days over. Android, Unity, Processing framework is looking more promising than any MS products. MS has officially stopped supporting XNA and God knows what else. Instead of spending millions in such stupid campaigns, if they had focused on spending constructively on developers, they would have had a better probability of catching up. I can't imagine life without Youtube, Gmail, Chrome and Google. It is same for Windows OS , Office Suite and C#. But as you have decided to dump products that I need, I have decided to move on. Someone give some sense to Mr. Steve Ballmer.
Gee, aren't you a bunch of whiners... :(( :mad: MS definitely has it's flaws, but buddy, what would the world look like without MS Office, and without the terrific Visual Studio development platform, both products that are at the top leaving other players chewing dust. :omg: C#.NET may have been originally a copycat of Java but it's far superior in features and capabilities at least out of the box * Don't get the [wrong] impression that I have any positive feeling towards Mr. Ballmer but MS has definitely made life of developments and debugging MUCH easier and nicer One should know to say the good even if it has become the obvious.
Cheees, Edo
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http://www.scroogled.com/[^] I learnt a lesson in childhood which I follow like a religion. To make a line shorter, all you have to do is draw a bigger line. So if you want to beat competition, offer better product services. Rather than trying to be innovative, they tried to follow Mr. Steve Jobs way. Kill desktop and shift to tablets. Try to get a pie in every segment where others are doing well. Bad. Windows 8 tells the story. So MS has started crying like a child and shouting foul. Have we forgotten how you managed Netscape? I am convinced by every passing days that MS has it's golden days over. Android, Unity, Processing framework is looking more promising than any MS products. MS has officially stopped supporting XNA and God knows what else. Instead of spending millions in such stupid campaigns, if they had focused on spending constructively on developers, they would have had a better probability of catching up. I can't imagine life without Youtube, Gmail, Chrome and Google. It is same for Windows OS , Office Suite and C#. But as you have decided to dump products that I need, I have decided to move on. Someone give some sense to Mr. Steve Ballmer.
I agree, but would also mention an elephant in the room you overlooked: LEGACY. Microsoft have lots of skilled people, but just like all other behemoths they aren't in a position to just make something brand new, stop spending resources on their old stuff, and ignore the existing customer base. Which is just to repeat that they have legacy. :)
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Gee, aren't you a bunch of whiners... :(( :mad: MS definitely has it's flaws, but buddy, what would the world look like without MS Office, and without the terrific Visual Studio development platform, both products that are at the top leaving other players chewing dust. :omg: C#.NET may have been originally a copycat of Java but it's far superior in features and capabilities at least out of the box * Don't get the [wrong] impression that I have any positive feeling towards Mr. Ballmer but MS has definitely made life of developments and debugging MUCH easier and nicer One should know to say the good even if it has become the obvious.
Cheees, Edo
I don't see that you made a point. :) Nobody's saying, as far as I've noticed, that MS hasn't ever done anything great. To the contrary, it's being said MS is past its golden days. I'm a developer living in an almost entirely MS universe; Windows, MSSQL, BizTalk, SharePoint, IIS, .net, msmq - and VS, TFS, and so on. And although I have limited experience with the competition's servers and devtools, I like a lot of the stuff MS gives us, and believe I would need lots more tools (making life more complicated) if I were to make the same software without MS products. And still I think MS is basically shot. They have so much legacy that they can't change fast enough to have a chance. Technological breakthrough nearly always means disruption, but not that things remain unstable forever. MS was disrupted by the internet. Just like they had a stronghold in the PC market, others now control the new markets, and MS is now one of the many players that face barriers to entry, rather than being the one setting up and maintaining them.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
I don't use my real name for anything on the Internet
So who are you then if you are not Mark Wallace?
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He's Sharon Osbourne.
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http://www.scroogled.com/[^] I learnt a lesson in childhood which I follow like a religion. To make a line shorter, all you have to do is draw a bigger line. So if you want to beat competition, offer better product services. Rather than trying to be innovative, they tried to follow Mr. Steve Jobs way. Kill desktop and shift to tablets. Try to get a pie in every segment where others are doing well. Bad. Windows 8 tells the story. So MS has started crying like a child and shouting foul. Have we forgotten how you managed Netscape? I am convinced by every passing days that MS has it's golden days over. Android, Unity, Processing framework is looking more promising than any MS products. MS has officially stopped supporting XNA and God knows what else. Instead of spending millions in such stupid campaigns, if they had focused on spending constructively on developers, they would have had a better probability of catching up. I can't imagine life without Youtube, Gmail, Chrome and Google. It is same for Windows OS , Office Suite and C#. But as you have decided to dump products that I need, I have decided to move on. Someone give some sense to Mr. Steve Ballmer.
Grasshopper.iics wrote:
Try to get a pie in every segment where others are doing well.
By that argument, Google shouldn't have released Android. What would you suggest? Should Microsoft be content to watch as tablets take off and they don't have a presence there. I've spoken to a lot of developers about W8 and the overlying opinion is that they might have given it a chance if Microsoft hadn't been so arrogant and switched off the start button and removed the boot straight to desktop option. Possibly Microsoft's biggest weakness right now is that it is so massively secretive. There are so many things that are going on that are heavily NDAd that teams are constrained from getting real feedback. Take the debacle over the release of the WP8 SDK. MS releases a major new platform, but doesn't provide the tooling for people to start developing for it until a couple of days before launch. Yet no one in the team saw fit to ask the question "wait a second, if we want quality applications in the store on day one, shouldn't we be getting this to people before the release"?
Grasshopper.iics wrote:
Someone give some sense to Mr. Steve Ballmer.
As much as I think the man's a fool, historically it's not been Steve Ballmer who has been responsible for killing off product lines in Microsoft. Talking to insiders, the same story comes up time and time again; it's internal politics. One manager thinks another manager is encroaching on his or her space and they convince the level above to kill the project.
I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
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He's Sharon Osbourne.
I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
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Gee, aren't you a bunch of whiners... :(( :mad: MS definitely has it's flaws, but buddy, what would the world look like without MS Office, and without the terrific Visual Studio development platform, both products that are at the top leaving other players chewing dust. :omg: C#.NET may have been originally a copycat of Java but it's far superior in features and capabilities at least out of the box * Don't get the [wrong] impression that I have any positive feeling towards Mr. Ballmer but MS has definitely made life of developments and debugging MUCH easier and nicer One should know to say the good even if it has become the obvious.
Cheees, Edo
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Grasshopper.iics wrote:
Try to get a pie in every segment where others are doing well.
By that argument, Google shouldn't have released Android. What would you suggest? Should Microsoft be content to watch as tablets take off and they don't have a presence there. I've spoken to a lot of developers about W8 and the overlying opinion is that they might have given it a chance if Microsoft hadn't been so arrogant and switched off the start button and removed the boot straight to desktop option. Possibly Microsoft's biggest weakness right now is that it is so massively secretive. There are so many things that are going on that are heavily NDAd that teams are constrained from getting real feedback. Take the debacle over the release of the WP8 SDK. MS releases a major new platform, but doesn't provide the tooling for people to start developing for it until a couple of days before launch. Yet no one in the team saw fit to ask the question "wait a second, if we want quality applications in the store on day one, shouldn't we be getting this to people before the release"?
Grasshopper.iics wrote:
Someone give some sense to Mr. Steve Ballmer.
As much as I think the man's a fool, historically it's not been Steve Ballmer who has been responsible for killing off product lines in Microsoft. Talking to insiders, the same story comes up time and time again; it's internal politics. One manager thinks another manager is encroaching on his or her space and they convince the level above to kill the project.
I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easierSteve Ballmer may be a fool in your eyes but he was smart enough to become the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a billionaire :cool: in U.S. dollars based on stock options received as an employee of a corporation in which he was neither a founder nor a relative of a founder!!
Cheees, Edo
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Edo Tzumer wrote:
but MS has definitely made life of developments and debugging MUCH easier and nicer
Except when you hit F12 in IE compared to Chrome!!!
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I don't use my real name for anything on the Internet
So who are you then if you are not Mark Wallace?
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Mark Wallace is a character in a story I wrote under the name Mark Wallace. I was hoping that by doing that, I'd disappear up my own backside (Goodbye, cruel world!), but it didn't work.
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