Does Microsoft Have a Disorder

[User002]

I have been wondering this for a while, to me it seems like microsoft got some sort of mental high-level problem focussing?

Or perhaps merely run in a yahoo style by a tech-illiterate Bald Bozo?

All half-baked and recently dumped: (congrats if you chose this tech path)

Silverlight, .NET, C#, VB, WPF, ..., etc..

The most recent focus: (at least for the next 2 hours, with hordes of dev's scrambling to learn)

HTML5, C++, JS

Am I glad NI is keeping the course since the 80's with LV.

Br,

/Roger

[tst]

Here's one theory - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html

You're welcome to decide for yourself whether you believe it or not.

And another relevant one when you're talking about the web - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

[jcarmody]

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@User002 wrote:

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The most recent focus: (at least for the next 2 hours, with hordes of dev's scrambling to learn)

HTML5, [...] 

Br,

/Roger

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Microsoft is behind HTML5?

[User002]

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@jcarmody wrote:

Microsoft is behind HTML5?

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Yes, apparently hell froze over. 

Br,

/Roger

[altenbach]

How is VPL doing, their graphical dataflow based programming tool? Did anyone ever compare it to LabVIEW?

[User002]

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@altenbach wrote:

How is VPL doing, their graphical dataflow based programming tool? Did anyone ever compare it to LabVIEW?

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Over at LAVA they seem to have been giving it a go:

http://lavag.org/topic/15711-observations-microsofts-visual-programming-language-compared-to-labview...

Br,

/Roger

[RobCole]

Interesting since we just had a Microsoft rep come through the company I work for and do a presentation. Showing us how to program Windows 8 applications with C# and .NET. Said they are concentrating on .NET languages for producing Win 8 apps. Silverlight, though, is not in Win 8 and not going to be developed for Win 8. Yep, silverlight is gone.

Rob

[User002]

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@RobCole wrote:

Interesting since we just had a Microsoft rep come through the company I work for and do a presentation. Showing us how to program Windows 8 applications with C# and .NET. Said they are concentrating on .NET languages for producing Win 8 apps. Silverlight, though, is not in Win 8 and not going to be developed for Win 8. Yep, silverlight is gone.

Rob

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There are some interesting cross-platform C++ libraries and GUI frameworks out there such as Boost and Qt. Going forward I would seriously evaluate and consider these instead of the Microsoftian .NET language focus of the hour.

Br,

/Roger