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I stopped reading here: > Microsoft has achieved platform unity across all their devices — something that Google and Apple are still a year or more away from r

by voidr 15y ago

I stopped reading here: > Microsoft has achieved platform unity across all their devices — something that Google and Apple are still a year or more away from reaching. This alone makes it hard for me to take this article seriously, also it's highly sensationalist.

sciurus 15y ago
I would love a way to hide all submissions of extremetech.
rbanffy 15y ago
These two are much better: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-allow-open-source-apps-in-windows-8-store/11388 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-allow-open-... http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Windows-Store-agreement-has-open-source-exception-1391749.html http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Windows-Store-agreeme...
Craiggybear 15y ago
Precisely what I was thinking.
freehunter 15y ago
It is kind of odd considering iOS is a version of OSX, and with the new OSX, they've backported a bunch of iOS stuff into it. There's never been more platform unity. Microsoft won't reach that until next year when Windows 8 is released.
- dpark 15y ago
  iOS is a version of OSX in the same way that WP7 is a version of W7, or that Android is a version of Linux. It's not a very meaningful statement from the point of view of a user (or a developer, really), because iOS doesn't look or act like OSX, WP7 doesn't look or act like W7, and Android doesn't look or act like "Linux". Sharing parts of a Kernel just doesn't matter. Also, what did Apple "backport" from iOS to OSX? They made a few more pieces of OSX "iOS-like", such as Launchpad, but I'm not aware of any significant pieces that were actually ported from iOS. And to be clear, I work for Microsoft. I don't want it to look like I'm bashing Apple here, because I'm not. Apple makes some very nice stuff. But I don't see them as having platform unity in any meaningful way (nor does Microsoft at this point).

by voidr 15y ago

sciurus 15y ago

I would love a way to hide all submissions of extremetech.

rbanffy 15y ago

These two are much better: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-allow-open-source-apps-in-windows-8-store/11388 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-allow-open-... http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Windows-Store-agreement-has-open-source-exception-1391749.html http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Windows-Store-agreeme...

Craiggybear 15y ago

Precisely what I was thinking.

freehunter 15y ago

It is kind of odd considering iOS is a version of OSX, and with the new OSX, they've backported a bunch of iOS stuff into it. There's never been more platform unity. Microsoft won't reach that until next year when Windows 8 is released.

dpark 15y ago
iOS is a version of OSX in the same way that WP7 is a version of W7, or that Android is a version of Linux. It's not a very meaningful statement from the point of view of a user (or a developer, really), because iOS doesn't look or act like OSX, WP7 doesn't look or act like W7, and Android doesn't look or act like "Linux". Sharing parts of a Kernel just doesn't matter. Also, what did Apple "backport" from iOS to OSX? They made a few more pieces of OSX "iOS-like", such as Launchpad, but I'm not aware of any significant pieces that were actually ported from iOS. And to be clear, I work for Microsoft. I don't want it to look like I'm bashing Apple here, because I'm not. Apple makes some very nice stuff. But I don't see them as having platform unity in any meaningful way (nor does Microsoft at this point).