Microsoft Dropped project
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I have the feeling than Microsoft is dropping lots of projects lately. I am thinking of OSLO, WINCE, OLEDB, Silverlight, Visual Studio Install projects, Hotmail, Live Messenger. I have been hit quite hardly by some of those. Each time it did upset quite a bit of the customer base. Is it that recently they have become more financially driven or has it always been like that?
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I have the feeling than Microsoft is dropping lots of projects lately. I am thinking of OSLO, WINCE, OLEDB, Silverlight, Visual Studio Install projects, Hotmail, Live Messenger. I have been hit quite hardly by some of those. Each time it did upset quite a bit of the customer base. Is it that recently they have become more financially driven or has it always been like that?
It's the wind of changes... i believe they're trying to get a hold in some emerging markets (Surface, cough, Windows Phone 8, cough) and supporting old stuff, will distract them from that purpose :) , what i personally dislike is that having the opportunity to have one plataform (WinRT or the .NET Framework) to support all their plataforms (Windows 8, Phone, Xbox, whatever), they just simply play with several variants that are akin but not alike.
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jschell wrote:
And it is certainly the way I write code. I write for the market place and not my own idealized preferences.
My greatest preference is to write code that can be used again. Thanks to Microsoft I spend more and more time rewriting and adapting existing code. I can think of better things to do and my time is to precious for such games. Much less would I even think of trying to run any kind of business under such conditions. The only hope may be that your market place will reflect this, but even then I would not put much trust in Microsoft anymore.
Lol, if only my business environment move as slow as Microsoft. I agree the constant retooling is annoying. Oddly enough they usually have good timing; right when some monolithic monster is collapsing under the weight of constant voracious change requests. The new feature set can be a good business case to upgrade to a version 2 (aka a rewrite).
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It's no secret that they would just love to kill Win32 once and for all, but they did not dare to do so yet. It would probably be even more disruptive than killing DOS and 16 bit Windows many years ago. But they have done it before and their behavior leaves little doubt that they are going to do it again. The really sad thing is, that the .Net framework was once intended to insulate us from the underlying OS API and now we need insulation from their constant changes in the framework as well.
If I know Microsoft well, they will first create a mapping layer that will translate Win32 calls to the new architecture for backwards compatibility's sake. Then, once legacy Win32 application are history, Win32 will be killed.
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BillWoodruff wrote:
I do have empathy for you and other developers whose incomes and lives have been disrupted by changes in languages, tools, key inter-operation API's, but isn't that the way it has always been, and always will be, in an industry where the pace of software tools and facilities for developers can barely keep up with the pace of hardware innovation ?
Strange. I still do the same thing I have been doing since 1978: Fill a computer's memory with machine code instructions and make it execute them. To do that, I need a stable basis, ne it an OS API or something like the .Net framework. And let's be honest, how many of those changes were intended to shepherd us into going along with their grand plans and not forced by fundamental technical requirements? I would say about all of them.
BillWoodruff wrote:
And, from the "cup is half-full" viewpoint, isn't the integration of JavaScript and jQuery into Visual Studio 2012, and its evolution rather awesome ?
Call me conservative, but those things should go to the Code Horrors, not into Visual Studio.
CDP1802 wrote:
Strange. I still do the same thing I have been doing since 1978: Fill a computer's memory with machine code instructions and make it execute them.
Hi CDP1802, Reading these words I fantasize someone is interviewing Van Gogh, out in the fields of Arles, as he paints: "Monsieur Van Gogh, can you tell me what led to your use of vivid, swirling, vertically raised-high-off-the-canvas, patterns, in your painting style ?" Van Gogh: "I don't know what you are talking about; all I do is put a brush in some color, and touch it to a canvas. C'est cas." best, Bill
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