[AccessD] Windows 8

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Mar 5 23:21:03 CST 2014


Hi Hans:

That does say something. If my Aunt was having problems setting up her mail program, I would understand that and blame her lack of knowledge of the platform...but when senior programmers can not even get the basics to run on a platform...my suggestion would be to throw out the platform.

I am afraid this era in Microsoft's evolution will be looked back on, in years to come, with dread...the company must realize by now that the time when MS could dictate the course of the expanding PC market is over. This is the age of making software run and be able to allow software to run on any platform.
 
Jim  

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans-Christian Andersen" <hans.andersen at phulse.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 5 March, 2014 12:08:50 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8


Woke up in the middle of the night and thought to check my email to see if any thread about windows needed my opinion to be weighed in on. Par for the course.

On another note, had to help a fellow developer today get set up with Apache, MySQL and PHP on Windows 8. Seeing as he’s the only developer here using Windows 8, there was no pre-existing documentation on how to do that. An utterly hostile experience. I ended up just installing VirtualBox and Debian and it works just fine. Poor dev spent a whole week trying to get things up and running to no avail. VirtualBox and Debian set up took a mere 2 hours to get fully going with everything additional compiled and configured. It’s 2014. Surely by now it should be easier than this, but I guess this just goes to show that most developers who work on anything other than the Microsoft stack (IIS, .NET, C#, MSSQL, etc) don’t choose Windows for development. They use Linux or OS X, hence why setting things up on those platforms are so much easier.

Nice wallpaper, fyi.

- Hans




On Mar 5, 2014, at 3:02 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Hans:
> 
> Question: What are you doing up at this time of night?  (I have an excuse; I'm retired and was just installing the latest version of Ubuntu. ;-)
> 
> http://itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Ubuntu_1404_wallpaper.jpeg
> 
> Just think of the OSS Windows 8-9 as just another distro whose UI could be rebuilt or re-installed at whim.
> 
> Jim
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hans-Christian Andersen" <hans.andersen at phulse.com>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 2:18:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8
> 
> Ironically, that might not be a bad idea for Microsoft. Unfortunately, though, Windows' biggest issues are not the underlying OS (the kernel). It is the user interface and the product development that is the issue.
> 
> - Hans
> 
> 
>> On Mar 5, 2014, at 2:12 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Windows 9 will be an Open Source project.
>> 
>> http://itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-to-join-microsoft
>> 
>> ;-)
>> 
>> Jim
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