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Ms is my favorite tech company. They, however are their own worst enemy. They produce many awesome but crippled stuff - like honey stained with drops of bird sh
by vezycash 8y ago
Ms is my favorite tech company. They, however are their own worst enemy. They produce many awesome but crippled stuff - like honey stained with drops of bird shit.
UWP's appx format is awesome - one click installation, sandbox, clean uninstallation, potential for diff updates. All these have nothing to do with portability.
But they crippled it by making it store only until recently... Too late.
One reason I hate using Edge is because i like chrome and Firefox, it's impossible to install extensions from the browser.
Why can't I use the store through my browser? There's absolutely nothing stopping the store from acting as a downloader and installer in the background.
If the store worked from the browser, usage would pick up.
- harryf 8y ago> like honey stained with drops of bird shit. That is a very specific image that I've never encountered in real life. Is it something that only beekeepers get to witness or is there some bird that homes in on honey pots?
- vezycash 8y agoI'm not a beekeeper. I used to write professionally but quit. The honey/bird poo imagery was simply the most striking I could think of.
- DCoder 8y agoFWIW, here in Eastern Europe we have a similar saying that "A spoonful of tar ruins a whole cask of honey" .
- andyonthewings 8y agoWe also have something similar in Chinese (Cantonese only?) - one bit of mouse shit ruins the whole pot of congee (一粒老鼠屎，壞了一鍋粥).
- pjmlp 8y agoIt is also one of my favorite ones, I think the continuous throw away of technology like Singularity, Midori, XNA, Longhorn, UWP,... is the usual outcome of the internal politics between WinDev, DevTools and Marketing divisions. It was supposed to get better after the reorganization, but apparently it hardly changed.
- kartickv 8y agoSince MS is no stranger to regularly building new frameworks, they should build one that is natively supported in Windows, with no compromises relative to other APIs like WPF or Win32, while also supporting macOS, iOS and Android as targets. Some functionality that's not supported in iOS, say, like full multitasking, should degrade gracefully. Think of it as a hybrid app framework that also is the first-party framework on one OS. No one has done that so far, and it would be interesting to see someone try. That will give developers a solid incentive to use this API, unlike others like WPF, Silverlight, WinRT, etc. The benefit for MS will be that Windows gets the best possible experience, rather than a least-common denominator one, as with Electron.