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The moment when Nokia is in the midst of the US launch for its Lumia 900 phone, which both Nokia and Microsoft hope will win some market share for Windows Phone 7, is not the best time to talk about Windows Phone 8 from a marketing perspective. Especially when Windows Phone 8 will have …continue reading Windows Phone and Windows 8 convergence: a few more hints from Microsoft I have been drilling into Visual Studio 11 beta recently. This includes a simulator for debugging Windows 8 Metro style apps and I was surprised by the way it works. Unlike the Windows Phone emulators, which are isolated environments for testing apps, the simulator is actually a window into your own machine. You …continue reading Run Metro apps in a window on Windows 8 Microsoft is having trouble convincing developers that its new Metro-influenced Visual Studio user interface, in the forthcoming version now in beta, is a good idea. To be more precise, it is not so much Metro, but the way Microsoft has chosen to use it, with toolbox icons now black and white. The change also …continue reading Developers dislike monochrome Visual Studio 11 beta Microsoft has released two further ASP.NET frameworks as open source, joining ASP.NET MVC which was already open source. These are published on CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source repository site, using the newly added Git support. You can find the code here. The two additional frameworks are ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages. Just to …continue reading Microsoft open sources further ASP.NET Frameworks, publishes code with Git It is fascinating to watch the Metro-fication of all things Microsoft, from the Xbox 360 user interface to Windows Phone to Windows 8 to forthcoming versions of Office and other applications. Future versions of Dynamics products were previewed at the Convergence 2012 event (which included a session called CRM goes Metro) and there are …continue reading Developers: will you do Metro? Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012 is released next month and available to download now (I am not sure what the distinction is). I have a high regard for Microsoft’s database server; it seems to me that the team mostly gets it right. The product has become somewhat diffuse though, especially as the Business Intelligence aspect …continue reading What’s new in SQL Server 2012? I am a fan of Wordament for Windows Phone and Windows 8. This is a Metro-style app. I was annoyed though to discover that it was broken on my Windows 8 slate. That is, it could not be launched because it did not exist when searching the Start menu, nor in the “All apps …continue reading Fixing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 Consumer Preview I am getting started with the Windows Server 8 beta and noticed this in the list of Features Removed: The Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) is deprecated. If you use the SUA POSIX subsystem with this release, use Hyper-V to virtualize the server. If you use the tools provided by SUA, switch to Cygwin …continue reading Microsoft deprecates Subsystem for UNIX, recommends open source instead Microsoft will have expected some users to find the transition from Windows 7 to Windows 8 challenging, but I doubt it was ready for the reaction from its own community that it is receiving for Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The best place to start is the comments on Building Windows blog here and …continue reading Crisis in Microsoft land: what next after the mixed reception for Windows 8 Consumer Preview? QCon London ended yesterday. It was the biggest London QCon yet, with around 1200 developers and a certain amount of room chaos, but still a friendly atmosphere and a great opportunity to catch up with developers, vendors, and industry trends. Microsoft was near-invisible at QCon. There was a sparsely attended Azure session, mainly I …continue reading Microsoft’s platform nearly invisible at QCon London 2012 |
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