[dba-Tech] More on Windows 8 promises...

Martin Reid mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Sun May 27 13:56:17 CDT 2012


And this differs from apple in what way?

Martin

Sent from my Windows Phone
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From: Jim Lawrence
Sent: 27/05/2012 19:17
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] More on Windows 8 promises...

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

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