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Great post on explaining the benefits and problems with both Microsoft and Adobe’s approaches to rich internet apps.
The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft’s Rich Internet Application technologies
[via Mary Jo Foley]
David Bennet, a dev on the Vista Parental Controls team is leaving Microsoft and he decided to take some pot shots on the way out.
“I just accepted a position to work at Google up in Kirkland, so still in Seattle. I will be starting there on the 30th of April, so [...]
SB.com: –Engage!
After all this, I realized that MS made a really powerful tool for really expert users. It seems that after all is said and done that it is a tool not for interaction designers, but for interactive designers and thus its real promise is lost because interactive designers don’t design or engineer applications but [...]
Simon Brocklehurst thinks so, and I agree with him. Microsoft has a long history of promising to support other platforms and then coming up short or dropping them quickly. We used to joke at Microsoft that cross platform meant both Windows98 and WindowsNT.
Scoble starts a discussion (Why do a reader only for one publication? (Adobe vs. Microsoft for developers)) and Ryan Stewart picks it up (How Adobe started winning developers)
I think we’ve got some fun coming on and we developers are going to be in the catbird seat as Adobe and Microsoft fight it out for our [...]
The code name for Windows Mobile 6 is “crossbow.”
Crossbow is a weed killer used for killing blackberries.
iPhone debate: I’m a Mac vs. Bill Gates - 10 Zen Monkeys a webzine
A very, very nice fictional conversation between the guy who plays a mac on tv and Bill Gates.
I’m sick to death of people touting regional anomalies as some harbinger of the future. They should make an ad where there’s three actors representing [...]
Universal and Sony prohibit Zune sharing for certain artists [via Engadget]
So, Microsoft keeps screwing over their customers to appease the major labels. After agreeing to pay Universal a bounty on each Zune sold (setting a chilling precident for the industry), and crippling their main differentiating feature (sharing music wirelessly) so much as to make it [...]
Mary Jo Foley sussed it out from a talk he gave at Wharton.
In the talk he’s asked about screwing over partners, and he basically says, “fuck ‘em.” yeah, great idea Steve. What about fucking over your customers who bought music with Plays For Sure DRM or bought devices with it? Yeah, that is gonna encourage [...]
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I don’t doubt Mr. Gutmann’s scholarship, nor his motives. The scenario he paints seems extreme. Extremely stupid. Now, I worked on Windows Media many years ago, and I can totally see a document like this coming out of that group. There were many good and smart people on that team, but they didn’t [...]
