Well, as far as VFP goes, I'd like to learn if VFP will run on the
high-end "full-Windows-8-Professional" tablets. I have my doubts
because all of the tablets appear to be ARM-based processors and the
VFP runtime, I have been told, is compiled C++ code with a bit of x86
assembler mixed in. So, I think it, and everything else that runs on
Win8-x86, would need to be recompiled to run on the new platform. I
doubt MS will port VFP. I'll be interested in what they will do with
DotNet.
[UPDATE: I've been told this isn't true, and the high-end platforms
will be Intel CPUs. Maybe good news for VFP, but for the Surface
brand, hunh? Windows NT was available for Intell, PowerPC and an NEC
CPU, iirc. How'd that work out? This is dumb.]
It seems to me that targeting my offerings on HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript
platform is a better bet than writing apps on any proprietary
platform, Apple, Android or Microsoft. A tablet is a low-power device
not suitable for intense database work (an argument we used with
PalmPilots, too) but that trades the complexity of connecting to a
backend (and caching, and offline updates, etc.) in client-server
fashion for the power savings. Web stacks are fairly mature
technologies (although the varied levels of standard support is, and
probably always will be, maddening) and allow you to build reasonably
complex apps that will run on iOS, Win8RT, Android, or even plain old
legacy form factors like laptops and desktops running Windows, OSX or
Linux.
I'd like to learn more about the hardware involved. It seems neither
fish nor fowl. Littler than a laptop (even a Mac Air or an Ultrabook),
funny keyboard, nice screen. I'm an atypical user - there are likely a
dozen 'puters in the office from micros to laptops to tablets to
desktops and servers - but with clear task delineations. This reminds
me a bit of the Subaru Baja - too small a bed to be a practical
pickup, too small a cab to be a station wagon, no trunk for the
groceries; really an oddball. In being all things to all people, is it
a mediocre experience for all?
Since MS has dropped this as vapor-hard-ware ('shipping Q3'?), no
price, no specs it seems we'll have lots of time to speculate, read
reviews of early pre-production models, and likely see something
different from the demo by the time it ships, perhaps in time for
Xmas. At least it'll keep the trade press busy for the summer...
"Okay, let me get this straight. Did Microsoft just kill the Windows
tablet OEM market?"
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/diy-it/okay-let-me-get-this-straight-did-microsoft-just-kill-the-windows-tablet-oem-market/614
Surface: Microsoft, What the Hell is Wrong With You?
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/surface-microsoft-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you/20599
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Kevin Cully
<kcu...@cullytechnologies.com> wrote:
> What am I going to do? Wait a month or two and see what happens.
> Especially to see if this is different in market performance from the
> other Microsoft offerings over the last several years.
>
> What am I NOT going to do? Run right out and plunk down some coin on an
> unproven product.
>
> Wait and see. I think this situation warrants that behavior.
>
>
> On 06/19/2012 11:24 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
>> Customers like to buy new shinny stuff don't hey?
>>
>> <http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/microsoft-surface-tablets-unveiled/#ixzz1yFbxveR4>
>>h
>>
>>
>
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