* Posts by roadhog

4 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Mar 2011

Antimatter hangs around at CERN

roadhog

keep an eye for lemuel

e bomb is only days away.

Windows 8: Microsoft’s high-stakes .NET tablet gamble

roadhog
FAIL

@sil Not disaster inevitable

"Microsoft strength has always been the ecosystem: developers, IT consulting shops, trainers, that could make a good living on Microsoft platforms with Microsoft APIs."

Baloney, microsofts strength was that 90% of what people wanted to run required the

windows API, and that API was so obfuscated that no one really bothered to emulate it.

Now 90% of what people want is on facebook, which requires a html renderer and a flash

renderer if you are unlucky. The windows API is now irrelevant to most of the world and is

a pain in the ass for the rest. .NET never even got close to killing flash.

HTML can run just about anywhere, javascript is a less load of crap than flash, requiring a

less load of crap renderer.

I used to code only DOS/windows centric apps but i haven't coded anythign that is windows

specific in about 5 years and to do so now would be anachronistic.

IBM used to rule the roost with mainframes,

Microsoft ruled the world with desktops,

the new ruler(looks like facebook at the moment) will rule with internet client machines

that are chrome like

ie smart phones, tablets or such

(you know the devices people like more than computers because they are cheap,

easy to use and you can carry them around)

that run the common presentation layer which is html/javascript.

.NET like java will be confined to the server.

Microsoft needs to split or start selling off divisions like IBM did.

IE9: Downloads beat Angry Birds, lag Firefox and Opera

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statistics2

93.2% of statistics are incorrect

Apple: Yes, Safari outperforms embedded iOS web viewer

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breaking news

Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller fired for talking