For one thing, I liked XP and 7. 8 would be ok if they had left the start menu as an alternative and left out those cruddy apps. Mail is the worse mail prog I have seen. IOS is awful too. That's why I mentioned Android and not apples do what we say OS. The point was that Android could do a lot of good for Linux on the desktop. And no I won't touch apple. I already wasted my money on an ipants. Well good for you if that's what you want. I like VS and I would say so do many other people. If something came up on Linux making programming easier (for me) I would certainly think on it. Sorry not to crop but the email needs to be intact this time. Al
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: 01 May 2013 21:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] The Tech Industry's Darkest Secret: It's All About Age On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I think Microsoft's days are numbered. All things made by man have numbered days. > Windows 8 is a large pile of poo. Which differentiates it from Microsoft Vista, Windows Me and Microsoft Bob, how, exactly? This is a pattern, not an anomaly. > It is lagging behind Android on the phone. Which in turn is lagging behind Apple iOS. Your point? MS has more experience shipping bad tablet OSes than any other vendor out there. > Though I will say that if Samsung and others do not get their support in > order people will work out > they (phone manufacturers ) are rubbish. Phone OEMs sell disposable consumer devices, not personal general-purpose computers. Disruptive companies (Apple iPhone, Google Nexus) sell general-purpose computers with phones in them. > What this could also mean is once people realise Android is Linux, then > maybe Linux will take off. You mean, like, become the dominant OS on the Internet? (Done.) on routers? (Done.) BSD with a proprietary desktop (Apple). > All we need is decent visual studio like programs for Linux and it could > be a going concern. Bye bye Microsoft. > I'm sorry, a decent visual studio? Have you seen one yet? I'd argue Komodo (http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide) or Eclipse are competitive, though I don't use either. I don't think IDEs are relevant for the kind of development I do. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/007601ce46a3$d7af3340$870d99c0$@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
