I was just reading a post and wanted to also put my comments here....
here is the topic on channel 9
http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-8-news-Ive-been-waiting-for#ce10095df6dea4327898b9f500177f70e
32 minutes ago, KDawg wrote
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Vesuvius, if you allow me to play devil's advocate. Here's is Fake Steve Sinofsky talking:
<fakeSteve>
Now some have said, what about everyone who invested in WPF/Silverlight apps? My response is, well, what have you done? Name a handful of interesting WPF apps. Name a handful of Silverlight apps of interest. I can name one, Netflix. For all the talk of a great dev experience the iPhone and iPad have eaten our dev ecosystem. The apps people want today are written in HTML/JS and Objective-C.
The current crop of developers on the MS platform are the best enterprise devs in the world. We'll continue to support them with our current tooling. But really our dev ecosystem hasn't churned out high quality apps. You can say that maybe what we're doing here isn't the right thing, but neither is continuing what we were doing, but hoping for different results. Our app ecosystem speaks for itself. It's shoddy.
</fakeSteve>
I'm a WPF/SL dev by day myself. I'm probably one of the few people that learned WPF before HTML/JS. But I've actually found HTML/JS pretty simple. Layout is a pain, but hopefully flexbox and grids will fix that. All in all, I don't mind writing HTML/JS. And JS compilers seem to be progressing a lot faster than the CLR JIT.
I like part of what you just said:
1) microsoft has failed to provide *GOOD* application guidelines on style and UI
2) microsoft has failed to enforce *QUALITY* in the applications, device drivers and utility software that run on windows.
3) people do not care how the app was written, they care that it works, that it's easy to use and nice to look at. by failing at items 1 and 2 microsoft has failed at getting many users to *WANT* more microsoft software.
honestly if they do not deal with 1,2,3 then it does not matter at all what they push at developers next.
Hey DEVELOPERS: fix your programs! even if microsoft publishes good style guides and trys to check apps it starts with us!
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