figuerres

• TWC9: VS Ultimate Roadmap, MVC/Web API/Razor Open Source, WP SDK 7.1.1 and more

  Apr 01, 2012 at 7:14 AM

  VS Ultimate:  Yeah right !   who can afford to pay that much?  Really?

  seems like i recall when MSDN + VS was like $1,000 a year now it's nuts...  

  the cost of Ultimate is way too high.

  Pro or Permium is the max I would ever pay for of the VS versions.

  the jump in price does not add that many killer / must have features to justify it.

• The Big Dimmer Switch

  Feb 19, 2012 at 12:36 PM

  2 days ago, Charles wrote

  @figuerres: What are you asking, exactly?

   

  well honestly several things are on my mind and seem related to this post:

  1) microsoft seems to be trying to change how they share information with developers, i see some valid reasons but i also see problems with this shift. it's a double edged sword.

  2)  related to #1  is the issue of how the tech changes and how in recent history developers have been left with a feeling that Microsoft has tried to "jump" on a new trend at the cost of dropping another tech. or at least making the annoncments come across to many developers as a kind of "Slap in the face" as it were.

  3) also realated to #1 but also to the larger picture is the list of things that microsoft has done amazing work on but yet this work has failed in many ways to get the public acceptance we would like to see. Also the way other companies have been able to benefit from Microsofts hard work.

  just look around the many "Tablet Devices"  from multiple companies that are hitting the market and have sold many many units....  a large part of the work to make them was done by Microsoft but not one of the popular devices today is making money for microsoft or running a Microsoft OS - as far as i know of.

  Granted just around the corner we have WIndows 8 and Windows on Arm but my concern is that like the Windows Phone that this will be coming to the market too late to get the market share needed to attract companies to invest in developing for it.

  I have as yet to see any real demand for windows phone apps in the real world. i do see demand for android and iOS apps.

  and this is interesting as I also see MonoDroid and MonoTouch beeing used to make apps for these devices,   again a case where Microsoft has done a HUGE amount of work but gets no fame, no money and no real advantage.

  there is for sure a paradox of if you try to be "Open and Share"  you might be giving stuff away.

  but if you do not share then you can be accused of all kinds of Evil things ....

  I do not have any simple answers ....  but I do see a lot of things that concern me.

• The Big Dimmer Switch

  Feb 15, 2012 at 4:33 PM

  Interesting...

  i wonder if this can follow thru with what it says....

  what is the strategy?   how to get on the proactive / advanced side.

  how to not let others reap the benefit of your work...

• TechFest 2011: 3D Photo-Realistic Talking Head

  Mar 13, 2011 at 9:33 AM

  MM  Max HeadRoom Show !!!

• First look at 5 features of IE9 RC

  Feb 10, 2011 at 12:06 PM

  where can i get a "readme" file of whats chnaged / fixed as of rc9?

  for example the prior beta and VS2010 debugging is broken this is part vs2010 and part IE9 ..

  also many sites badly mis render in the prior beta is there any news on how we will cope untill they fix the sites ?  I never did find a way to get the sites to work right in IE9 Beta

  also the problem with images not loading / showing - has that been fixed ?

  sorry if this is in the video i am working and can't watch it right now.

• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 1 – Security Architecture

  Dec 28, 2010 at 5:49 AM

  Hey Larry:   http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Azure-prising-question

   

• Silverlight TV 53: T Minus 2 Weeks to the Silverlight Firestarter

  Nov 19, 2010 at 1:58 AM

   

  My take: make a next gen x box that has the following:

  1 Blue Ray drive
  2 Cable card slots
  3  SIlverlight runtime
  4 the rest of the stuff the 360 has but updated with new hardware specs.
  5 support 3d - i am not really looking for 3d but i see that more as "keeping up" with whats beeing marketed now.

  BOOM! there ya go!  the consumer does not need to buy a blue ray player and does not have to get a cable box  for tv just plug in a cable card and hookup the hdmi ports and you are good to go.

• Gigabyte’s Booktop T1125 Offers Three Form Factors for the Price of One

  Nov 08, 2010 at 10:47 AM

  Please link the the MFG web site when you list stuff.

  there is a link in this post with the name / model of the device, as it did not say where it went i thought it was to the Mfg but it's not.

  if you link to another site show that in the link perhaps with the name of the site like this:

  Read more at www.domain.com

   

• Silverlight TV 50: The State of Silverlight with Scott Guthrie

  Oct 24, 2010 at 7:45 AM

  too much windows phone ...  sorry but i need to see it out and in the hands of users. i need to see some sales and adoption trends... 

  RIA / WPF  - we need the RIA for SIlverlight work on WPF, yes you can tlak to RIA from WPF but the way you have to do that SUCKS and you lose a lot of what makes it worth using.

  SL V.Next and LightSwitch - we need the SQL report viewer control *MAJOR*  the lack of that is huge for making good LOB apps. not all clients have office installed, and  SQLRS in HTML has rendering flaws with some layouts.

  Hoping that PDC next week will start to reveal a CTP / Beta of SIlverlight 5  ...  and that MS gets to port SL to the i* devices .....

  hate to say it but we have a number of business openings for apps on the i* stuff and no one asking for WIndows Mobile stuff.

   

• "Magical" Kinect Demoed by Harry Potter Actors

  Sep 17, 2010 at 5:17 PM

  10 foot tall and 16 foot wide and way more than HD ..... killer TV

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