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

JS = javascript?


Alan Baljeu


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 From: Shawn Wildermuth <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 5:00:52 PM
Subject: RE: [OT] Windows 8: how quickly will it be adopted?
 

  
They've done a great job with the JS apps for Win8 Apps…I do wish there was a bit less of WinJS and more of that baked into the OS but overall it's an excellent experience.
 
- stw
 
I don’t even use spell check – my misspellings are on purpose.
 
From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Sells
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 3:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [OT] Windows 8: how quickly will it be adopted?
 
  
The JS support for building Win8 apps is excellent.
 
From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 12:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OT] Windows 8: how quickly will it be adopted?
 
  
Long story short, I'm cautiously upbeat about Windows 8 being adopted, much sooner than Windows 7 was, at least.  I'm thinking that what will make or break Windows 8 is all the new (and intriguing) hardware that is coming out for it.  At least some of that had better be decent.
 
I'm upbeat simply because I have been hearing that Windows 8 is terrible for months, and am still hearing this, yet when I tried it for myself, I found that it was great, and did not have trouble finding things.  Have you ever tried to find things on an Apple box?  And as for the Power Off button, just press the hardware Power button.  Apparently, this shuts it down gracefully.  That's how consumers will do it anyway.  
 
I'm amazed that people find Apple UIs intuitive, but don't find Windows 8 intuitive.  For me, it was the opposite.  
 
I'm also worried about how good the JS development environment will be, and am especially worried that many will choose XAML/C# instead, locking us into Windows, hard.  I love JS, but I can't imagine the average enterprise choosing it.  I suppose XAML beats Objective C though.  Everything is relative.  Most of us are building web apps anyway.
 
Mike