{"id":358,"date":"2011-06-15T08:25:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T06:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2011-06-15T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T10:01:53","slug":"windows-8-and-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/06\/windows-8-and-compatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 and compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I saw an article on Ars technica<\/a> about how Microsoft is planning to give Windows 8 a totally new API (Application Programming Interface) that will break compatibility with most existing and past development tools – like Visual Studio. If this proof to be true then I think Microsoft has just signed their own death warrant (from an individual developer point of view). So much for having a usable Operating System (from a developmental view). All the experience we ‘developers’ gained the last decade or so will be basically useless (except HTML and JavaScript).<\/p>\n

In a way I can understand why Microsoft would be doing such a thing. They are desperately trying to play catch-up in the market and needs to do more and more radical things just to stay relevant and alive . They have never been strong in creating a development technology and sticking with it<\/em><\/span>. There is too much internal politics and infighting going on. The result is that they are failing faster and faster each time. But don’t count them out yet – Apple was once in that position and jumped back into life. For Microsoft’s sake lets hope they can also do it. Perhaps they must use their billions while they still have some to buy Steve Jobs \ud83d\ude09 – or ask uncle Bill to come out of retirement.<\/p>\n

I must admit I really like C# so it would be a sad day if I have to hang up my C# ‘gloves’, so to speak.
\nWell, if I have to abandon the development knowledge gained the last decade I would rather choose something that will not limit me to Windows and Microsoft only. Ironically it will probably turn out to be something in the line of HTML and JavaScript. Perhaps Microsoft has a good idea there but it won’t help them keeping the skills in ‘their court’ since these are open standard technologies. In the next couple of years things could get really interesting (or chaotic…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I saw an article on Ars technica about how Microsoft is planning to give Windows 8 a totally new API (Application Programming Interface) that will break compatibility with most existing and past development tools – like Visual Studio. If …<\/p>\n

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