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It all goes back to everything Microsoft offers is tightly coupled to Microsoft's ecosystem, and frankly I've played in that space for years and just got bored
by snorkel 15y ago
It all goes back to everything Microsoft offers is tightly coupled to Microsoft's ecosystem, and frankly I've played in that space for years and just got bored of it, plus I got tired of investing in learning Microsoft-specific APIs that Microsoft itself kept obsoleting.
Nothing really new or interesting is happening in Microsoftland. Instead every new offering is just an incompatible counter-offer to some other established technology (eg. Silverlight vs. Flash, .NET vs. Java, Windows Passport vs. OAuth, and so on). Boring.
Perhaps the only area Microsoft has truly offered anything new and interesting is DirectX but I'm not a game developer so I don't have any use for it.
- gabbo 15y agoI'm not really trying to refute the broader point you're making, but Passport existed long before OAuth. Late 90s I think. They're only trying to do the same thing in the most superficial way. Passport was Microsoft's attempt to do single sign-on across the internet by centralizing authentication. It never really caught on. The only place I saw it was on eBay for a few years, nowadays I think it's mostly for MS properties.
- mwsherman 15y agoYou really ought to check out Linq. C# generics and lambdas are really nice too.