Well, I'm quite disappointed about the lack of innovation for 'traditional' Desktop applications. It seems that apart from some house keeping and a few useful additions in .NET 4.5 there is zero in terms of features for users or windows software developers.
The biggest disappointment for me is the announcement of the AppStore and the fact that it focuses mostly on Metro. I've written about this on my blog: Windows 8 and the (disappointing) new app store: http://www.patrickklug.com/2011/09/19/windows-8-and-the-disappointing-new-app-store/ and Why the Windows 8 App Store will fail: http://www.patrickklug.com/2011/09/21/why-the-windows-8-app-store-will-fail/ Other than that I like Metro and WinRT looks like a good change under the cover but it just feels like Microsoft throws yet another framework against the wall and as always the framework is probably good for a few things and not so good for most other things. All I want is a high performance modern UI framework that let's me create what I want. Unfortunately such a thing doesn't seem to exist on Windows. Anyway, I haven't digested all of this yet and haven't had the chance to look into any of the detailed sessions. cheers, Patrick On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Stephen Price <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey all, > > So most people have probably absorbed the stuff shown at BUILD and so I > thought I'd kick off a new thread and see what people think. (I'm yet to > spend any time watching videos but have read a few blog posts about it) > > A couple of things spring to mind. Silverlight will soon be (if not > already) legacy code. I liked the quote I saw somewhere "The rumours of my > death have been greatly exaggerated. - Silverlight" > > Being a developer/designer/devigner, I think its great that XAML will be > available for C++, HTML5 and .Net. I'm wondering if it's time to > rebadge/rename/reinvent the SDDN user group. I'm thinking XUG would be a > good name. (Or perhaps XUGXUG, said in the voice of a peon from warcraft 3 - > pronounced Zug-zug). > > thoughts? > > Go. > > > _______________________________________________ > ozwpf mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf > >
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