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Agreed. The XAML syntax takes time to learn, but any decent programmer should be able to pick it up fairly quickly. Once you do, it's light years beyond anything WinForms can offer.
The only reason, as I see it, to stick with WinForms, is to avoid the performance hit from the rendering engine. WPF looks nicer, but renders a bit more slowly and uses more memory. Personally, I think it's more than worth it.
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after success of .NET in 2000 M$ kept screwing us developers making us to learn new API's (WPF, WCF...etc) which didn't really give us an edge in terms of new capability/feature
dont get me wrong, i passed the learning curve - just hope M$ understand they should start think not to screw their developers (there're so many new things you can learn if you just want to learn something - I dont want waste time on anything that dont give me new *capability*, certainly not another dying API like SL, or another winform-like API)
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Research from ThreatTrack Security revealed that 40% of security professionals found that a device used by a member of their company's senior leadership team had been infected by malware because of a visit to a pornographic website, and nearly 60% of the security professionals surveyed have cleaned malware from a device after an executive clicked on a malicious link or was duped by a phishing email. What else are they supposed to do to fill their day?
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The easy way to resolve this issue is to have dedicated porn tablets, or virtual machines which serves no purposes than porn.
Those of you who object, why? Exec always get the best gadget.
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Just as long as I don't have to clean it afterwards.
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that's why I suggested virtual machines
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Ah, yeah, VMs would be good. It's just you mentioned "or tablets". ick.
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the point is, designated compromised area. Then you can sandbox it (outside corporate LAN).
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Well it could be worse. They could be trying to manage things. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This picture[^] is taken from one of the public terminals of the European Parliament (don't worry, it's SFW).
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Microsoft execs quietly showed off new compiler technology under development at the company that aims to compile .Net code to native code directly. Write once, run just here
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They should just buy .Net Reactor and merge it with Visual Studio, job done!
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Amazon Web Services is launching its own virtual cloud desktop service, called Amazon WorkSpaces — promising to deliver a Windows 7 operating system and software from Amazon’s cloud to traditional desktops, laptops, Android tablets and Apple iOS devices including the iPad. Why bother with those horrid dust collectors in the office? Stick them far away beyond a long network connection instead!
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In a speech at London's Science Museum, the famed physicist says the Higgs boson discovery makes physics less interesting. He adds that we've only got 1,000 years left on Earth anyway. Oh, if only the Higgs were 140GeV, that would be interesting, wouldn't it?
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oday, I’m very excited to launch Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1. I am also thrilled to announce Visual Studio Online, a collection of developer services that runs on Windows Azure and extends the development experience in the cloud. Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio Online represent the beginning of a new era for Visual Studio, combining a powerful desktop IDE with rich developer services in the cloud. "To the moon, Alice, to the moon!"
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Microsoft and cross-platform mobile-app development vendor Xamarin are tightening their technical and marketing ties under a new partnership deal. "The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!"
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Oracle, which has already been working with HSA Foundation on projects, finally becomes a member. You had me at 'everybody' seeks Java performance boost
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Fuel cells may be a strong alternative for powering data centers, Microsoft report concludes. It's better than putting a nuclear reactor into a Surface
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American definition of a fuel cell: Gas tank.
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why all the hate?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the US: It was rather a zynic outburst which made me using the oldest US cliché ever.
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Few things in computing are as vital as the lowly hard drive. If your memory goes bad or your processor blows, it’s easy enough to switch out; when a hard drive gives up the ghost, your precious files expire along with it. Usually until 15 minutes before you create a backup
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During. It's always during the effing backup.
Ugh.
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