Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun May 27 13:18:46 CDT 2012
I posted an article on Window 8 and how it is in the process of discouraging development on it but its new decisions may even be more severe than initially mentioned. 1. All development tools will cost...unlike all other OS developers. 2. All applications developed will have to be vetted through MS and that will cost. 3. Older applications will not be able to be easily ported to the new environment. What this means is that all students, novices, development companies will have to anti-up in dollar and re-development time. All Open Source Software will be blocked. Web applications will have to be IE compliant to run on Metro and Microsoft's reputation for complying with the industries standards have been very poor in the past and are most likely going to get even worse. With W8 going it alone many web designers and developers have even stopped building tools or supporting the IE browser all together. They are starting to view entire Windows system as little more than a niche or even a dead-end product. Computer Science graduates have long been the engine of product development and innovation. Windows of the past has been one of the major directions for this talent...but that road is now a very narrow toll road. Whether history will view this move is a brilliant game changer for Microsoft or an act of suicide is still to be written. http://tinyurl.com/brtcays Jim