Re: Windows 8: how quickly will it be adopted?

Mike <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:07:07 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.off-topic
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>
> I can't point you to any references, but I recall hearing about a strong
> "default" culture at Microsoft, where they believed not so much in
> making things customisable as making them behave the way you would want
> and expect out of the box.
>

Did you mean Apple?  Most people seem to like things that way.  Convention
over configuration.

As for Visual Studio specifically, it has been so slow and bloated for
years, that I believe the best thing MS can do is to start removing
features and focusing on making it as fast and stable as possible.  Except,
start paying a lot more attention to JS of course.

Mike