Microsoft has ceased development of the Windows operating system

Started by Magnum, April 02, 2011, 03:50:54 PM

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drizz

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April 02, 2011, 04:09:22 PM
oh, c'mon Magnum...
Quote from: infoworld.com/t/misadventures/shocker-redmond-microsoft-turns-linux-020April 01, 2011
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Magnum

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April 04, 2011, 12:11:36 AM
Quote from: drizz on April 02, 2011, 04:09:22 PM
oh, c'mon Magnum...
Quote from: infoworld.com/t/misadventures/shocker-redmond-microsoft-turns-linux-020April 01, 2011


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April 04, 2011, 01:33:55 PM
My MASM32 Examples.

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jj2007

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April 04, 2011, 01:45:37 PM
Quote from: Magnum on April 02, 2011, 03:50:54 PM
Is this for real or a hoax ?

Real, absolutely real. They ceased developing Windows, but they continue bloating it.

sinsi

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April 04, 2011, 01:49:14 PM
From Bill's link
QuoteWindows 8 will operate on the ARM microchip architecture
Just hope that MS don't dumb down win8 so it looks good on the ARM.
That's what has been happening with games, make them for the consoles (i.e. not the PC) then port it back.
I showed my nephew Black Ops on my PC and he didn't recognise it, even though he plays it on a console...

heh, jj, who cares about bloat in the era of a hard drive that is bigger than 2TB? Except us  :bg
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April 05, 2011, 08:58:57 PM
I read somewhere that the continue change of API without reason is what made more and more developers seek web applications instead of windows applications. One thing  adding an improving an existing API, another different one is change technologies to new ones that do exactly the same thing every 2 years or so. Thereof making windows less and less relevant. If they continue to do so, they will loose their reign in the PC. Hopefully by then they will have a reign in robotics (but thats another story).

I guess its a part of life of huge software companies. The more people, the more people want to do things differently, and the less management has a vision of the whole thing. Resulting on creation of bloat and reinvention of the wheel many times over in different areas. Of course, since you have money, you can make it seem as a positive, the new silver bullet that will cure cancer and make you coffee at the same time.

Heck even single developers (like myself) have the temptation of scratch the code and star over, even if one knows most of the time is better to not do so (as the code made is already debugged). Imagine that multiply by the 13,000 or so developers in Microsoft.  No mater how good is your company managing people, bloat, scratching and reinvention will occur when you are at that scale.
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