{"id":944,"date":"2012-05-25T10:07:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2012-05-25T10:07:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:07:33","slug":"death-to-desktop-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2012\/05\/death-to-desktop-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Death to desktop development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, perhaps that is what Microsoft is trying to achieve with its latest move to remove all desktop development functionality from its Express versions of Visual Studio. Yes, you can still create desktop apps in the ‘pro’ version but at something like $500 it isn’t cheap for hobbyist op someone that is still learning. \u00a0Lately they have been making all kind of wild and ridiculous decisions trying to push their new ‘Retro’, eh I mean ‘Metro’ interface down our\u00a0throats. I for one don’t like this new interface ‘on the desktop’ at all and I’m definitely not the only one!<\/p>\n

Just looking at the comments in articles like these<\/a>\u00a0you can get the impression that more and more people (developers) are really not liking this new direction that ‘they’ are taking. It is one thing to create something new and exciting but another to actively alienate\/irritate your existing followers just to try and push them into a new direction (which might or might not\u00a0suit them). Is this rush to try and play ‘catch-up’ with ‘the fruit company’ so important that they actually are shooting themselves in the foot? Yes, that is right, they are actively playing the catch-up game but is loosing it with every move they are trying. Not a good move if you want to survive in the end. As big as they are (once) ‘they’ are now in the ‘failing’ game – as Adam Savage would say – Failure is always an option. Microsoft is now ‘living’ that lotto!<\/p>\n

Was good knowing ya:\u00a0RIP Microsoft 1975-2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, perhaps that is what Microsoft is trying to achieve with its latest move to remove all desktop development functionality from its Express versions of Visual Studio. Yes, you can still create desktop apps in the ‘pro’ version but at …<\/p>\n

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