"few Linux/mac people" - Yes there are a smaller proportion of Mac users (constantly increasing - there were a lot of switchers at MAX), but they're often the real early adapters - and that's the folk who you want singing the praises of your wonderful new creation...
On 25/11/06, camlinaeizerous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I still go to the occasional Microsoft conference when they are about to release something big. Well yesterday was their "ready for a new day" which was a show case of vista and office. I went to the developer thread curious what programming would be like for Vista with the changes that were made. Really long story short everything they show cased reminded me of the capabilities of Apollo which is soon to be released and Flex/Flash. "Microsoft Expressions" a new development tool reminded a lot of people of flash studio and it seems like a copy of flash with A Microsoft label on top. Although I didn't get to see a lot of the under working just a quick over view, essentially by default the time line is on the bottom drawing tools on the right and library on the left. It seemed so similar during the overview I heard people actually laughing saying it looked like flash. however looking at the code that was generated and the movements and transitions were basically generated with java. When they were showing how to program their "gadgets" which the presenter even slipped and called widgets not just once but twice they made it actually fairly simple. 3 short files of javascript, xaml markup, and c# for a simple gadget however with the demos I have seen of Apollo I believe in the end there will be by far more Apollo gadgets/widgets or what ever you want to call them compared to Vista gadgets. And as a plus Apollo is cross platform where needless to say the few Linux/mac people that were there were not impressed with the windows only capability but talking with a couple saying that Apollo could do the same things but also work on Linux/mac machine I must say it really made their day. While Apollo's future will obviously go far beyond just simple widgets this just seems to be how Microsoft lined up their development demos showing mainly a few gadgets and bunch of "look what happens to the button when I click on it". The only thing that I saw showcased as far as application development that Microsoft has an edge with is 3d rendering, which in time I imagine flash will have very little problems with. I have also been wondering if they got their RMA term from RIA. Rich Media Application vs Rich Internet Application?
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