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In with the new boss, same as the old boss
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I knew IBM was slow to change, but you'd have thought a few of them might have heard that they weren't BFF with Microsoft anymore
Error: Snark-Content Mismatch.
The article is about what IBM saw when they surveyed Corporate IT PHBs about what platform they wished their serfs were using; not what IBM thinks companies should do. In particular the last para of the article:
Quote: The big question now is whether IBM will take up the flag for WP. It has no dog in this fight since it does not sell handsets. IBM is, for all intents and purposes, a services and software company. Hardware sales are now in the single-digits with the x86 server divestiture. Microsoft couldn't ask for a better ally. A seriously ironic one, given their histories, but a major ally none the less.
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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If customers must run XP after April 8, switch to alternate browser that still gets patches, advises team from Dept. of Homeland Security How many of the people sticking with XP are capable of installing a new browser?
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What that version can't take the NSA patch?
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I had almost identical thoughts there. They're entirely correct, but I'm not sure the US Government are well-placed to lecture people on online safety anymore.
That ship has sailed.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The audience and the judge have spoken in our recent Microsoft and Android debate and they agreed with me that Microsoft/Nokia making Android phones is a smart move. But, can Microsoft give Samsung a run for its money as a top Android company? I think Microsoft might have a real chance of doing just that. Bonus #6: Just think how much it would irritate Apple
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But at the end it will come to the prize Microsoft will sell those phones!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I understand that Microsoft earn just as much on Android phones from licensing fees.
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It does not mean Microsoft will sell it for less then Samsung does today. So why to buy Microsoft's for more? For Office? I don't think so...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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If MS were to get some traction in this direction I can imagine them buying out Xamarin. However, psychologically, might be hard for them to downplay Windows Phone.
Kevin
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The saying “30 is the new 20” doesn’t always hold true — in fact, it seems to be the opposite for those in the software development industry. While some professionals are just beginning to hit their stride at age 30, the future for an average programmer can appear pretty bleak after 29. It means they're getting close to 0x20!
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Double it and deprecate the development platform you have been using for the last 5+ years and see how it feels.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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That's the one, I hated HTML/Javascript back in the 90s - the last time I worked with the dogs breakfast they call web development. The ONLY reason I took the teams to web/silverlight was the whole binding thing. Now the bastards refuse to go back to the desktop, WPF where all our skills and resources are relevant and insist on going to MVC.
If I ever meet the thick witted, numbskull, pea brained, moronic idiot, bastard in Microsoft who made that decision I will take great pleasure in being quite rude to them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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He/She probably is worth $20 billion got a home on the beach in Maui and don't give a sh*t what you or I think?
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Probably, but I would like the satisfaction of telling he/she just what I think of them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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...that's worth way more than $20 billion, it's priceless.
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WPF is obsolete. The cool kids have moved on to greener pastures.
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So that is why the WPF team is building up numbers again?
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They are? Maybe they're making it usable.  Too late though, will never touch that pile of dung.
Wout
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They are, and I find it extremely usable.
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Mycroft, give your middle finger to the web trend of microsoft, and support a WPF developer like me by buying IaaS Management Studio.
Good old productivity tool in WPF and licensing as we always liked 
Or else, I'll be obliged to jump on the MVC band wagon and give right to the pea brained idiot. :'(
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It means they're getting close to 0x20
I'm drawing a blank. 
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We don't like characters like you saying things like that.
/ravi
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