To a degree, but I think that's more of a factor of what people are working on at the time and what they are comfortable with. For example, our team writes MSDN articles and we going to be talking about the new features that we just wrote, not existing areas that haven't been touched in years.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 5:46 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: MSDN mag MSDN floats with the DPE tide mark. Its an editorial version of evangelism and its sole purpose is to get folks onto the new while showing them bridges from the old to the new. If DPE spend cycles talking to you about Windows 8 AppStore + JavaScript then MSDN will usually follow. This is really not a "magazine" for sustaining existing adoption(s) its really a marketing tool to get you move over to whatever next.. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net<mailto:g...@mira.net>> wrote: MSDN mag was once something I read cover to cover. Now, I glance at the front page, maybe read the editorial, then throw it into a drawer never to be looked at again. Am I the only one? Hell no! I'm fed up with articles about phones, Windows 8, Store Apps, Javascript and WinRT (mostly telling us what WinRT can't do). For years I was also slowly getting sick of McCaffrey's articles which were getting so academic that they were useless for real-world developers. So useless in fact that I was going to email the editors and politely tell them that although I'm a profound geek, I have absolutely no use for genetic algorithms, matrix decomposition, adaptive boosting or artificial immune systems. Even Petzold's relentless articles about perspective graphics and music synthesis aren't of much use or interest (even though I'm a musician). I have an almost unbroken set of issues going back to May 1993, and in the last 2 years I have felt the same shift of focus away from core languages, tools and frameworks into what marketing must think they want us to read. I scan all pages, but I find I'm increasingly flipping over more and more pages like you. Greg K P.S. I'd better go and look in the letterbox.
