It’s un-Apple-like”. That, for me, is the entire iTunes experience in a nutshell.
So much for iTunes on Windows being “like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell”.
In 1973, an operating system called CP/M was born. CP/M had no directories, and filenames were limited to 8.3 format. To support input and output from user programs, the pseudofilesCOM1,COM2,COM3,COM4,LPT1,LPT2,CON,AUX,PRN, andNULwere provided.
Code archeology or the story of almost 40 year old legacy carried through generations of Microsoft products to ASP.NET.
The ability to run Mac OS X apps on the iPad, with full access to the file system, peripherals, etc., would make the iPad worse, not better. The iPad succeeds because it has eliminated complexity, not because it has covered up the complexity of the Mac with a touch-based “shell”. iOS’s lack of backward compatibility with any existing software means that all apps for iOS are written specifically for iOS.
As usual, Gruber writes about superiority of Apple's approach. This time the starting point is the recent preview of Windows 8.
However, the very strategy which Microsoft used to maintain a monopoly caused its rigidity of response to a new, post-PC market. Unix fit right in with the new shift in the basis of competition: toward more personal, portable and conformable computing. Windows did not. Microsoft had to build a completely new OS to deal with devices (Windows CE has little if any shared code with Windows NT et. al.).
Why Unix made such a great comeback during the last years.
In Azure, there's no direct access to the operating system or the software running on top of it—it's some kind of Windows variant, optimized for scalability, running some kind of IIS-like Web server with a .NET runtime—but with far fewer restrictions on application development than in Google's environment. Though .NET is, unsurprisingly, the preferred development platform, applications can be written using PHP, Java, or native code if preferred.
Introduction to Windows Azure, cloud service from Microsoft, including comparison with Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.
Getting a new Windows machine now requires CIO approval,” said another employee.
While in other corporations getting Mac or Linux box requires CIO or is just plain impossible, Google moves away from Windows.
It’s quite popular to bash the Windows Registry in or lightly technical terms. I’ve just spent a couple of weeks reverse engineering the binary format completely for our hivex library and shell which now supports both reading and writing to the registry. So now I can tell you why the Registry sucks from a technical point of view too.
Not that I particularly care...
