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This article is fan fiction at best. For example, there was a big push toward tools support for Office. MS said this was a pillar for VS2010. I spent a lot t
by kenjackson 13y ago
This article is fan fiction at best.
For example, there was a big push toward tools support for Office. MS said this was a pillar for VS2010. I spent a lot time doing Office development with VSTO/VSTA.
Windows Phone 7 was released with a new user experience and was the answer to iOS and Android. It actually got developers excited. But, a year later with Windows Phone 8, Microsoft told all the developers that the investments they made in Windows Phone was a waste of time because none of their apps will work on Windows Phone 8.
Huh? That never happened. Virtually all WP7 apps work on WP8.
- lstamour 13y agoYeah, that's a bit backwards. Really, what happened is they broke backwards compatibility for device owners which is a much worse scenario: You couldn't upgrade your device to the new OS! Why is this worse? It leads to a very immature platform with few avenues to improve upon it. At least iOS 7 makes it easy to still target 6, where the hard part is UI changes. Microsoft changed little in the UI between 7 and 8, but somehow the phones and tools remained incompatible.