Well, as a Microsoft Developer, what are we going to see?
Are we going to see .NET for, Linux, UNIX, iOS and Android?
SQL Server for LINUX and UNIX?
I used to sell VCR’s in the 70’s. Beta was hands down better than VHS, but Sony refused to play with everyone and got shut out.
I think this is a really good move by these guys.
Get rid of that stinking 8 or 8.1, to start. It’s NOT cross-platform and it’s hellacious. I’m self-employed and I have to work at a desktop. It was beginning to fail so I finally had to get a new one...with Win 8 installed. I upgraded to 8.1 and downloaded the thing that is supposed to make it look like 7 and it still stinks.
They’ve also screwed up all the old reliable programs and Outlook will not even accept mail from ISP accounts (I have both web and ISP accounts).
I have several Apple devices and am a big touch-screen app user and purchaser...which I gather was the group that Microsoft thought it would impress.
But I’ve gone back to using my old rackety PC running Win 7. At least I can do my job on it and it actually communicates with all my other devices and accounts.
I have told everybody I know not to buy a new PC until Microsoft has remedied this, and not to “upgrade” to Win 8.1 if they’re already running 7.
It might actually do them some good if there was something like mono that actually worked well.
Or here’s a crazy idea: why not just build “Windows” on top of Linux, as an alternative to KDE or Gnome? You get an OS for free, but if you want it to have all the (alleged) ease-of-use features of Windows, M$ support, etc, you have to buy Windows too. I dunno, but the biggest gripe I hear from users who try Linux is “it’s too hard to use”, so the opportunity exists to fix that.
Going after embedded apps in devices sounds like a hard way to make the kind of money M$ has been accustomed to making.
>>Are we going to see .NET for, Linux, UNIX, iOS and Android?
That’s implied in the article, isn’t it? Color me skeptical.
I certainly hope not, I enjoy not seeing the blue screen of death on those devices. and have no desire to see MS’s java clone ported to other environments. I don’t need to see any more Visual Basic as long as I live.