"It's modern, it's fancy, it's got all the bells and whistles"

I'd say that's a good reason to choose a framework, dumbass. If you're issue is with using frameworks that run on non-Windows boxes, you should take that up with the CTO or whoever makes those decisions. And he'd probably use your own quote to defend his decision, something akin to "frameworks that are modern, fancy, and that have bells and whistles attract developers."

I make 6 figures coding in c#. Your argument is retarded. And what's a real language anyway. WTF does that even mean?

I don't think that at all. I think of the "app store" of whatever system I'm on (eg marketplace on android).

I tried watching this on my iPad, but I couldn't because the video is in flash. Sigh. Appholes indeed.

What are you basing this on?

I'm pretty sure she'd have to be found guilty before having a permanent record. However, her name and this article will forever come up in Google searches.

I think you're exaggerating a bit. If you don't like Microsoft products then you don't like Microsoft products, but to claim that they "fail" (whatever that means... instability? functionally?) is a bit disingenuous.

For what OS? It doesn't feel sluggish on Windows 7 (at least not on any of my machines).

Just curious, what seems to be happening with Windows regularly (in particular Windows 7 or Vista)?

Those two in particular seem to have gotten security right, with 7 being less annoying of the two. In the terms of stability, I can honestly say that Windows has been very stable since Windows 2000/XP (at least for me).

To this day I thought WinSock was a Microsoft thing. I mean, I was young teen back then, but still. Maybe this guy should have marketed better?

If this guy doesn't have any hands, then I'll be impressed. But I don't see how using a device with a built in keyboard (virtual) to type a document is a big deal.

If he wants to spend 3x as long to type a document, that's on him. And I say this as an iPad owner. In general, the consensus is correct, it's for consumption not production, bar some niche areas (of which, writing a constitution is not one of them).

It's been a good 10 years, but I don't remember having to lug around text books in college. I'm pretty sure we took notes in class and kept the books at home.

Also, I own (and love) my iPad, but it's hard to pay attention to ANYTHING when you have one because right in your hands you have the internet and 1,000s of apps at your disposal. I can't read something for 5 minutes before switching to something else. I can't imagine how little I'd get done if I had one of these in class.

I'll argue that Nokia was already on it's death bed (as a respected brand), they were completely missing in the smart phone market, which is the market you need to be in if you want to be a respected cell phone manufacturer brand. Yes, they were working on neat products, but it seemed that they were quite a bit away from shipping (and being new, they carried a lot of risk as well).

I think that Nokia was forced to going third party, where the choices are Android and WP7. think going with WP7 was a good idea. It's a shipped product that looks pretty slick and is well reviewed. Yes, it's not exclusive to Nokia, but it's not too popular compared to Android, so I think it will still give the Nokia phones a more exclusive feel as when compared to Android. That, and they got a ton of cash for choosing WP7, which they will hopefully use to develop neat hardware.

This is absolutely the norm. Some places are worse than others, making you sign a "everything you do belongs to us" agreement (how enforceable that is I don't know, IANAL). Most places just don't want you to compete with them, so anything you do on your time related to their industry belongs to them. In this case we're talking software, so MS is relaxing that restriction for wp7 apps.

I'd say sending a text to the wrong person is a big security flaw.