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Telerik is where long-time Microsoft evangelist John Bristowe has landed. We’re using a lot of this tech at iQmetrix and are thinking about the same things: which tech for which purpose? But we’re broadening it beyond just the .NET stack.
And, frankly, without looking at Windows 8 in more detail, this kind of guidance is too early.
Regardless, a very interesting view into what Microsoft tech stacks are fit for what purpose.
.NET: So long and thanks for all the fish - lucisferre
This is Chris Nicola’s post on “leaving .NET” (and also, unfortunately, my team at iQmetrix) to go work for his first startup.
The quote is very, very interesting, and should make Microsoft perk up and take notice - that Chris learned the most about C# and .NET from open source software.
Github is probably the best thing that ever happened to Microsoft and their open source efforts.
Microsoft knows Marketplace numbers aren’t important, that’s why you never see them push those types of stats to a broad audience. If Windows Phone is going to succeed then it needs top apps. Once Windows Phone users can sit down and watch a commercial that says “on iOS, Android and Windows Phone,” then you’ll know people are taking interest. Until then, Microsoft needs to clear up its existing Marketplace and focus on attracting quality applications, because no one wants to be left without their favorite app — especially if there are 450,000 they don’t care about.
I think the concept of “top apps” is an important one. Yes, you need to fight the perception that your platform is not worth developing for (a bit of chicken and egg). But I think a long tail of quality, niche apps IS important, so that the mobile device meets everyones needs.
The tension between top apps and long tail apps are fundamentally different viewpoints on how you think the mobile world will evolve.
The Two (and Only Two) Ways Microsoft Can Survive the Phone Wars - GeekWire
Developers, developers, developers. This could also be read as apps, apps, apps.
The combined result of the Microsoft debacle, changes to the PC industry and the refusal of PC manufacturers to support Linux is that Apple is the only company which now seems competent enough to make a decent personal computer that you can actually use for software development.
I’m impressed by Microsoft committing to improving Azure, and for moving quickly to include “hot” technologies. These are the kind of moves that will keep (& win) developer interest.
With the release of the XMPP interface for Messenger, any XMPP based chat client that can also support OAuth 2.0 for authentication will be able to connect to Windows Live Messenger to enable people to see which of their friends are online and chat with them in real-time and.
It is fan-fricking-tastic that Dare and the Live team are supporting open standards like XMPP.
(you may also get a chuckle from a comment on the post on how XMPP developers would prefer that their auth system worked)
Microsoft now has a nice all in one library for handling “tags” of all kinds — including QR codes and NFC. I’ve been keeping my eye on the ZXing library, which is Apache-licensed and handles most 1D / 2D barcodes.
Bing’s on board to index the whole store catalog and make all the fresh content easy to find, and the setup allows company websites to deep link to app descriptions in the store. There’s also a mechanism for integrating app purchases from company websites built directly into the store infrastructure as well.
It’s good to see Microsoft doing interesting things with appstores. I’ve complained about Google’s terrible search and deep links for the Android Market and for the Chrome Web Store.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 presence on the web is also bad — they just added permalinks, but the URLs are hashes just like Google. So, hoping to see the two stores merged or at least tightly coupled.
Subtleties of Scrum / Lean / Kanban, mixed in with disappointment that Microsoft is getting it wrong in Visual Studio.
