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The biggest downside for us is the deployment model, we'll stick with winforms for the foreseeable future* but getting the software onto user machines is still
by flukus 9y ago
The biggest downside for us is the deployment model, we'll stick with winforms for the foreseeable future* but getting the software onto user machines is still about as easy as it was in 1995, this is half the reason many apps become web apps in the first place, instant deployment.
Hosting a corporate store is azure only which is a no go, so we're stuck with the god awful click once.
There are no push deployments, when we release a new version we want everyone to be on that version, not waiting for the app store to get around to it.
The store may have caught up in this regard, but we also need to control which users get which version of the software for deploying preview builds.
The enterprise is MS's bread and butter and I always thought that they understood it well, I increasingly think that they never understood it and they just got lucky that for a time enterprise needs aligned with MS capabilities.
*There is a project to replace many of our winforms apps with react, can't wait to see this crash and burn.
- xab9 9y agoReact will solve all the world's problems. If not React, then Angular. I can't wait to see the projects falling apart when in two years G/Fb comes out with The Next Big Thing.