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Microsoft Previews Windows 8 for Tablets and PCs
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Is it too early to start taking bets on when MSFT gives up on Windows 8 like they did with Windows 7? Another major rewrite for Windows 9 coming after? Will we hear the sounds of crickets at all *14* MSFT stores when Windows 8 finally gets released?
How exactly did Microsoft give up with Windows 7? Windows 8 isn't a major rewrite.
Is it too early to start taking bets on when MSFT gives up on Windows 8 like they did with Windows 7? Another major rewrite for Windows 9 coming after? Will we hear the sounds of crickets at all *14* MSFT stores when Windows 8 finally gets released?
When did they give up on Windows 7? Why wasn't I informed about this?
Is it too early to start taking bets on when MSFT gives up on Windows 8 like they did with Windows 7? Another major rewrite for Windows 9 coming after? Will we hear the sounds of crickets at all *14* MSFT stores when Windows 8 finally gets released?
By the time Windows 8 is released to public, another 7-8 stores will open.
Start is no different that the Launchpad. Both are not any groundbreaking concepts or something that you can't live without. As a matter of fact both are there to promote apps, apps and more apps from their appstores.
i am still an active XP user. i have tried Vista and Windows 7, neither of them satisfied me. so i will never get it a try.
Microsoft should stay with Windows. After all, 99.99% of the softwares and the hardwares is compatible with Windows, isn't it?
X86-based Windows. Unfortunately the ARM version will have almost zero compatibility when it comes out.
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So what? It's understand that Metro apps for ARM will be written from scratch. It's a new platform.
Uh yeah, that's the point. This essentially has the same effect as a rewrite.
You don't use Visual Studio much, do you?
Microsoft's Windows APIs are pretty much the same across architectures (even writing common source are ARM Windows CE and x64 Windows 7 isn't that hard). You have to do some conditional stuff, but conceptually the algorithms are usually quite portable.
And, you can bet that source compatibility was one of the top tier goals for Metro.
The "platform" isn't important - it's the APIs.
I did take a look at the Metro Application stack. So if you have already implemented a WPF XAML app, then theoretically there should be very little re-work to orient it towards WinRT.