How can you be a rockstar if nobody has heard of you?
New pickup line
Man "Hi I'm one of the developer who wrote Angry Birds"
Woman "Lets have sex now"
Might for for actual rockstars, not going to work for programmers
One of the odder things to transpire at TechEd Australia this week was Microsoft’s insistence that developers are the new rock stars. Kids these days, The Reg was told by a middle-aged product manager for Visual Studio, aren’t interested in electric guitars, turning it up to 11, leather jackets, attracting members of the …
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Definitely had (has?) groupies, and at one point his avatar did grace some posters.
More seriously, the difference is actually social - music and film stars do tv appearances and tours, and much of their fame is based on that projected stage persona(s) rather than their raw skill in music/acting.
Thus people know what they look like and think they know the person as well. They don't of course, but hey, a fake personality generally beats a real one anyway.
Of all these millions and millions of PC's running Windows, how many are in the hands of company IT departments and are 100 locked down? Meaning, as a user (you know, those millions of users) you can barely use them properly, let alone install something on it.
Reality is that I can tell you - working for a large wordwide company using Windows PCs with several tens of thousands of users - we all still use Windows XP Service Pack 3, and apparently we might migrate 'soon' (meaning somewhere in 2013) to Windows 7. It has taken our central IT department all this time to completely lock the thing down (screw it up).
So, installing apps from the Microsoft store on Windows 8? Maybe at home, certainly not in the enterprise environment. That is unfortunately the reality we live in.
> Yes but MS will be happy to you to upgrade to W7. It's still money... in fact a lot more money.
Will that difference make enterprises look at Win8 ?
Perhaps they will drop the expensive move to Windows 7 that was supposed to take place next year and start planning for Win8 deployment in 2 or 3 years time. Of course that may mean they never get there.
...sadly, the answer to any article who's title poses a question is invariably "no".
If the answer were a yes, the title would've been something like "W8 DEVS ARE THE NEW ROCK STARS" with herds of exclamation marks or something. Shitty click-baiting at best, crap journalism at worst (because such an article belies a slow day at the office).
The App-Bubble probably will burst in a year or so anyhow. LTE is around the corner and already being widely deployed. You can have decent browsers like Firefox on mobile phones now. There's less and less space for the classical "App". Eventually it will be absorbed by the web.