Scott - what is DPE? I've missed this acronym. Is that an inernal Microsoft
department / unit?
Re the enterprise / consumer split: Where would you place Woolworths'
transition to google apps and Chromebooks for reportedly
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/print/538469/chrome_replaces_window
DPE - Developer Platform Evangelism
Still Enterprise, it's a B2C or even in many ways in part B2B move. I'd say
they probably sat down, took a deep breathe and thought Ok, how I can i
get the best bang for my buck across the Ux Platform spectrum and given
Java is still a language that could have
I have noticed in a few places discussions comparing the UI and API of WinRT
with Silverlight, and suggesting that it (WinRT) is preferable. Mostly,
these were quite old posts (a series of 6 or more at SharpGIS was my first
sense of this).
It does raise the possibility that Windows / Microsoft
I don't know much about the future of Microsoft because I suspect not many
INSIDE Microsoft themselves have a clear definitive handle on that (not to
sound jaded, i honestly do believe they are still haggling over how to
raise the broken into fixable solutions).
I would say this, the company has
