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

Did you read the article?

- Hans

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On 2012-05-27, at 11:56 AM, Martin Reid <mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk> wrote:

> And this differs from apple in what way?
> 
> Martin
> 
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> ________________________________
> 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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