Microsoft's head of marketing at the time posted about this on internal Yammer. He said there were two main reasons: first, "Windows 10" just did better in focus groups than Windows 9 or other alternatives; second,…
switching between a touchscreen and mouse is no more awkward than switching between a keyboard and mouse, imo
I'm not sure there's any crisply definable bright line separating them. Generally embrace/extend strategies do involve trying to make extensions that some people will consider valuable.
WinRT doesn't depend on the CLR at all, it's just an updated COM-based model.
Aren't your two paragraphs really two ways of saying the same thing?
no, but they've introduced a bunch of versions of it under different names (WPF, Silverlight, Phone Silverlight, WinRT XAML, UWP), a few of which broke compatibility, so that's probably where you got that impression.
voice is just an input method. a natural language interface can also support typing or other inputs.
The meaningful difference is whether there are isolation and distribution/update mechanisms so that users can install and maintain apps with less risk and hassle. This doesn't have much to do with (in-app) UI per se,…
These benchmark articles frustrate me because I rarely feel they tell me anything. What do the benchmarks actually measure? When one tested product benchmarks as better/worse than another, what specifically is happening…
Yes
Correct.
the answer from "silverstorm" is correct. To elaborate a bit, if you add a feature or API to the underlying OS, but there's no corresponding browser feature that makes use of it, to someone who spends most of their time…
even if you're "good at" hierarchical filesystems they have a few inherent problems: 1) there's overhead associated with coming up with a hierarchical file structure, keeping it updated whenever your problems or your…
There used to be a bus route that went from Seattle to Bellevue at 2:15 and 3:30 am, but it got shut down as part of recent budget cuts. :(
what, are you saying Bozo the Clown wasn't a success? :)
certain core systems components are often developed by small teams or individuals even within large organizations. the .net GC was written/maintained by 1 dev for a long time (Patrick Dussud, later Maoni Stephens), the…
the ambiguity is that it's presented as something the host does in this particular instance, but the validity of the probability calculations depends on it being a protocol the host always follows (in particular, that…
thoughtlessness and callousness are far more common sources of evil than either incompetence or malice strictly defined. "People who don't care if I live or I die".
there is a separate, smaller "quality" team with a separate reporting hierarchy that is supposed to address this - that's where the reference to data scientists, etc. in the article comes from. basically the idea is to…
Aren't we seeing it? I thought Qt does support WP8+: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/winrt-support.html
Windows Phone is some shared core components from Windows desktop (which RT is basically just an ARM build of) + its own stuff on top. The shared core has been growing with each release.
They had to block native code on WP7.x because they were on the CE kernel, knew they were going to move to the NT kernel in WP8, and native apps wouldn't have ported over.
imo the browser is just a better navigation model for a wide range of apps than typical OS GUI shells. so it's natural that either native apps get hosted in the browser (the plugin model) which has gone out of fashion,…
Bing isn't losing money anymore, they're finally breaking even as of last year.
It's a technically deeper version of the talk in that link.
Microsoft's head of marketing at the time posted about this on internal Yammer. He said there were two main reasons: first, "Windows 10" just did better in focus groups than Windows 9 or other alternatives; second,…
switching between a touchscreen and mouse is no more awkward than switching between a keyboard and mouse, imo
I'm not sure there's any crisply definable bright line separating them. Generally embrace/extend strategies do involve trying to make extensions that some people will consider valuable.
WinRT doesn't depend on the CLR at all, it's just an updated COM-based model.
Aren't your two paragraphs really two ways of saying the same thing?
no, but they've introduced a bunch of versions of it under different names (WPF, Silverlight, Phone Silverlight, WinRT XAML, UWP), a few of which broke compatibility, so that's probably where you got that impression.
voice is just an input method. a natural language interface can also support typing or other inputs.
The meaningful difference is whether there are isolation and distribution/update mechanisms so that users can install and maintain apps with less risk and hassle. This doesn't have much to do with (in-app) UI per se,…
These benchmark articles frustrate me because I rarely feel they tell me anything. What do the benchmarks actually measure? When one tested product benchmarks as better/worse than another, what specifically is happening…
Yes
Correct.
the answer from "silverstorm" is correct. To elaborate a bit, if you add a feature or API to the underlying OS, but there's no corresponding browser feature that makes use of it, to someone who spends most of their time…
even if you're "good at" hierarchical filesystems they have a few inherent problems: 1) there's overhead associated with coming up with a hierarchical file structure, keeping it updated whenever your problems or your…
There used to be a bus route that went from Seattle to Bellevue at 2:15 and 3:30 am, but it got shut down as part of recent budget cuts. :(
what, are you saying Bozo the Clown wasn't a success? :)
certain core systems components are often developed by small teams or individuals even within large organizations. the .net GC was written/maintained by 1 dev for a long time (Patrick Dussud, later Maoni Stephens), the…
the ambiguity is that it's presented as something the host does in this particular instance, but the validity of the probability calculations depends on it being a protocol the host always follows (in particular, that…
thoughtlessness and callousness are far more common sources of evil than either incompetence or malice strictly defined. "People who don't care if I live or I die".
there is a separate, smaller "quality" team with a separate reporting hierarchy that is supposed to address this - that's where the reference to data scientists, etc. in the article comes from. basically the idea is to…
Aren't we seeing it? I thought Qt does support WP8+: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/winrt-support.html
Windows Phone is some shared core components from Windows desktop (which RT is basically just an ARM build of) + its own stuff on top. The shared core has been growing with each release.
They had to block native code on WP7.x because they were on the CE kernel, knew they were going to move to the NT kernel in WP8, and native apps wouldn't have ported over.
imo the browser is just a better navigation model for a wide range of apps than typical OS GUI shells. so it's natural that either native apps get hosted in the browser (the plugin model) which has gone out of fashion,…
Bing isn't losing money anymore, they're finally breaking even as of last year.
It's a technically deeper version of the talk in that link.