It's not like Microsoft said, "hey, we invented an easy way to mount ISO's. Take THAT Linux! wait, you already have that? Oh well, our way is superior!"
It's more like Microsoft said, "Hey, we made ISO's easy to mount."
The rest of the crap comes from those who make a living trying to instigate fights between users in both camps.
Drunk twittering is a life ruiner.
I tried to get my team to do daily stand up meetings, but everyone quickly ran out of fresh material and no one was funny anymore.
The funniest thing I've heard recently is that I'm doing it wrong. That was a kick.
I'll bet this was in the roadmap for some time, and helps to explain why they do not offer a native SDK currently.
I think this is great for their phone platform as the Windows 8 kernel is likely to be far more robust in the areas of thread scheduling and memory management. Given that Windows 8 demonstrably can execute even in 128MB RAM (http://windows8beta.com/2011/10/windows-8-runs-on-64mb-and-128-mb-ram), the resource impact probably isn't an issue.
Is it that bad? Isn't the argument that the things we find in our immediate neighborhood are more likely to be commonplace than rare?
Let's ignore the fact that Microsoft wrote the specs for the phone as well as the operating system
As opposed to Apple, who not only writes the specs, but makes the phone.
... let's ignore that the phone is locked up tighter than a 14 year old Mormon virgin
Like Apple? These two points are irrelevant to sales success, and Apple proves it. Whether Microsoft has executed adequately on finer points is up for argument, but you didn't elaborate on any.
"marginal"? "brick"? So you want to lure people who actually own one into an argument while gaining bonus points from anti-MS readers, but really the choice of words adds nothing to your argument.
This just isn't accurate. It's not insanely buggy nor flaky, and so I'd like to know what your friend was seeing. I've switched from iOS to WinPhone 7.5 with an HTC Titan about 2 months ago, and I've found a couple of bugs:
1. The disappearing keyboard bug. This is sporadic, and easily worked around (by just refocusing the address bar), and is slated to be fixed soon.
2. Some web pages don't render quite as well as iOS Safari and Android web browsers. But this is pretty rare.
3. Music Hub needs some navigation work, certainly.
Aside from these issues, I've found it to be rather bug free, quite fast, and usable. I wouldn't at all characterize it as "insanely buggy" or "flaky" and I recommend it highly. Yeah, go ahead and accuse me of being paid my MS and what not. This is purely my point of view.
Looking at this from the "what industry can we make $$$ from" lens is the wrong viewpoint. Yes, the USA is pretty good at software. We are still pretty good at making cars, too. But really it comes down to our ability to innovate and create anything at all. Innovation happens at all levels. It can optimize something, giving us that 1% edge that makes all the difference, or can create a completely new industry. That's why deep capital investment in startups and academic institutions is so fundamental to our future success. We can't predict how our car, software, manufacture, agriculture, and other industries will fare in the next 50 years, but we can maximize our chances of success by being first and best at new things.
Maybe US software will collapse. Maybe Microsoft and Google will get bought by some Chinese company one day at firesale prices. If so, we need to ensure that we have new things to replace and surpass US software rather than instituting things that superficially protect it.
Absolutely, wasn't saying otherwise.
Corporations don't work for the people - they work for the bottom line. Sometimes The Right Thing and More Profit are actually aligned.
lisp, v.: To call a spade a thpade.