Enterprise Adoption & Windows 8 Hijackings.
In a business today there is a sales team who are out on the road or in a customers cubicle giving the said sales pitch about their vNext software. The sales pitch is a normal one filled with roadmap...
View ArticleThe Unofficial Windows 8 Developer FAQ
Early this week I’ve been talking to a few current and former Microsoft staffers about all things Windows 8. In my discussions I’ve started to gather some gossip in around what happened to Silverlight...
View ArticleThe consequences of declaring WPF is dead.
When you write a blog post like the one I wrote around WPF being dead, you tend to get a few emails that are either filled with confusion such as “it’s dead?…wtf?” or worse you get the email that...
View ArticlePublic Apology to Steve Sinofsky – My Bad.
On Saturday morning, I was in a 1:1 email thread with Steve Sinofsky talking about a few things regarding Microsoft and .NET (mainly what is the future of .NET Framework). In the back and forth Steve...
View ArticleWindows 8 Search could be better. My theory.
Today I wanted to search for Word 2013 in Windows 8. At first, I hit START+W and began typing “Word”, and then of course nothing came up. Confused, I closed it down and went START+Z then found it the...
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Jakob Nielsen is not your Windows 8 Guru heres why.
I can’t believe i’m about to defend Microsoft Design outloud like this. It’s not something I would normally do, however when it comes to the Jakob Nielsen Windows 8 review I just can’t stand to let it...
View ArticleThe Days of Microsoft Lives.
I was talking to a friend last night about the whole Microsoft fall out. It was a good laugh and the more we discussed it the more a script inside my imagination began to form. I always find myself...
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Dont be a clone, be different.
It’s been roughly a week or so now since I got my Windows Phone 8 iPhone clone – I mean, Nokia Lumia 920 (it was a joke, relax). The phone itself is quite large, and that for me isn’t an issue except I...
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Microsoft Surface Retail strategy in Australia is broken.
If you walk into a retail store such as Harvey Norman, Dick Smith or JB HIFI in Australia with the sole intent on buying a Microsoft Surface then you will be probably shocked to learn that it is likely...
View ArticleWindows 9 – replacing it with a triumvirate of products
This morning I saw a question posted to the local OzDotNet mailing list I subscribe to (i love me some DL action). I thought I’d keep this response on my blog for two reasons – I love the sound of my...
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