Posts by optimusfisher 9 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jun 2010
Even if Cult-Of-Mac (really sounds like a non bias source) was correct your post still doesn't add up to common sense. Your calling the playbook a failure for not having email integration for business users through blackberry enterprise server. If someone is a business user working for a business with blackberry enterprise server they are going to have a blackberry. That means they can do bridge and have native email, problem solved.
To assume a Skype acquisition, if it were to happen, is some kind of statement about or even connected to Lync is a stretch. MS plays in more than one market space. Lync is a product targeted at enterprise collaboration. Skype clearly falls into the consumer market. A Skype buy for MS would likely have much more to do with providing better voice comm services around their consumer products like messenger or whatever they call it now.
Actually, the iOS packager is just one piece of the equation here. Adobe is trying to set themselves up as a solid option for mobile developers that want to target multiple platforms. Jobs would of course love for all developers to code in objective C only and target only his platform which is why he is so stubborn about doing anything that plays well into letting developers target multiple platforms. On every platform other than Apple apps built in Adobe Flash will be able to use the Air runtime. Android already has air, Windows Phone 7 will have it early next year, and blackberry's playbook is basically being planned around it. The only reason that Flash is packaging to native on iOS devices is because Jobs won't allow air on his devices. Adobe could be like Jobs and just try to say if you don't want to play with our Air we don't want to play with you either, but I think they are trying to do well by their developers and give them an avenue to still target iOS. Of course Jobs also initially blocked even the packager saying you could only code in objective C and nothing else. He had to backpeddle on that because the EU was going to smack him silly for anti-trust issues.
Forgive me for not playing the part of MS hating technodweeb, but if you take a fair look at Bing it is a good tool. It is better in many ways than google. Google has started copying the Bing layout, so that should tell you something. I've found Bing's image and video search far better than Googles. The quick preview in search window is a nice touch so you don't click into the youtube video that has the one screen to make it look like what you want only to be some drunk shmuck blabbering in his underpants. The two will yield different results, but I don't see that you could actually call one's results better than the other. Google's seem to me to be more shopping based results (probably due to paid placement).
If you so need that porn and gore you may feel free on your smartphone to crack open the browser and go to town. WP7 will support flash as well, so no part of the dirty web will be off limits to you. MS is simply laying down the rules for what can be sold in their store. If you really just have to get porn from every possible place my twisted firend then go ahead and enjoy your android device I suppose. Most folks have no need for such apps and will be happier that the app store isn't cluttered up with such garbage.
"That's assuming there are any developers; there still aren't any Windows Phone 7 handsets to play with, and the demonstrated feature set is unimpressive compared to Apple's iPhone 4 and even what Android is offering these days."
What? Let's get a few things clear. It is a GOOD thing that all of the developer support material and the SDK are available well in advance of the handsets. This allows developers time to begin working on applcations prior to handset release increasing the potential for a library of quality apps at release. That's far better than Google's approach of just dropping new code with no lead time given to developers to deal with the fact that their apps are now busted by the newest fragment. The Windows Phone 7 SDK is lightyears better than what Apple has available. What feature set exactly does the iPhone and Adroid have that WP7 is missing out on? I can think of a few things WP7 has going for it that iPhone and Android don't. For the business folks there is full proper integration with Exchange and Sharepoint along with actual security features. For the youngins there are XNA based games. Devs have already ported games built for Xbox Live to WP7 with very few tweaks because they both use XNA. Microsoft is working on being very good to the devs with WP7. It is the same approach they took with Xbox that allowed them to come from nowhere to overtake Sony.
Being that premises originally comes from use in legal documents which were referring to multiple entities and therefore qualifying the use of a plural term, the modern use of the term to describe single locations actually seems wrong. However, the english language is full of such quirks. In any event dismissing any opinions provided based on the lack of an "s" seems a bit odd. Perhaps you should sit back have a beer and relax.
I'm not sure you understand the term strategy. If you look at the strategy they are laying out for the future it looks like a balanced and solid plan. Only time will tell if they can pull it off. As an IT professional who actually administers stuff I can say that I've been very pleased with the direction that MS has been taking their server offerings. The steps they have made around integration and managability make my life better. If they can continue that into the new realm of cloud breathing down my neck I'll be very happy. Xbox live if nothing else serves as proof that MS has the experience and ability to manage such a large cloud type service.
What you call conflicted I call balanced. MS is working to develop a product lineup that spans on-premise and cloud solutions and allows enterprises to choose when and where each makes sense for them. As an IT professional I far prefer this logic compared to those that push all or nothing solutions. The reality is while technology writers can pontificate until they are blue in the face about how great the cloud is and how everything will move there, actual IT professionals understand there will always be a need for on-premise solutions. If MS pulls off providing integrated solutions that allows for centralized management of on premise and cloud solutions they will have a major win on their hands.
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