Microsoft needs a new tune to woo developers to Windows 10
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"Developers! Developers! Developers!" That chant might trigger nightmares of a rather sweaty Ballmer, but what was true almost a decade ago is now even more critical for Microsoft's success.
"Give me one more chance to make it up to you."
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Hello, I think that Windows 10 and Universal Apps concept is very useful. Developers will have an option to create one app that works on each device (Mobile, Desktop, Xbox). Today cross-latform programming is becoming more and more popular. If Windows 10 will appear on 1 billion devices (as Microsoft said) I think it will trigger developers. This is new idea and we will see how does it work.
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Hello, I think that Windows 10 and Universal Apps concept is very useful. Developers will have an option to create one app that works on each device (Mobile, Desktop, Xbox). Today cross-latform programming is becoming more and more popular. If Windows 10 will appear on 1 billion devices (as Microsoft said) I think it will trigger developers. This is new idea and we will see how does it work.
While I agree in principle, I disagree strongly with the fact that the only way to distribute such an app is through the Store. If MS would enable alternative stores, then I'd have no problem - you simply choose which stores you trust and proceed from there. I simply don't want to put MS in charge of deciding what is OK for my app to do: not in security terms, but in censorship terms. Until that changes, I have zero intention of pursuing Universal App development.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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While I agree in principle, I disagree strongly with the fact that the only way to distribute such an app is through the Store. If MS would enable alternative stores, then I'd have no problem - you simply choose which stores you trust and proceed from there. I simply don't want to put MS in charge of deciding what is OK for my app to do: not in security terms, but in censorship terms. Until that changes, I have zero intention of pursuing Universal App development.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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The problem is not the tools Microsoft delivers to developers - they are good. But Microsoft forces on the developer community his ideas of anything, and always the last idea is the best, so there is no real hard-core developers for the Microsoft world as that world is over-fragmented...And if you are using an older fragment you almost unable to get any help from Microsoft... As Microsoft gold partner we have every two years, present a piece of our application to Microsoft and we forced to use specific thing (there is a list every two years) even it is completely irrelevant to the application...Last time we had to show how our application use Azure...Our customers do not agree to use any kind of cloud platform, they not even agree to let us host their servers...But we had to re-write a part of our application just for show how we use Azure...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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