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

What testing framework if any are you using for your JS apps?  Is there a
lot of async involved?

Mike

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Shawn Wildermuth <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Alan Baljeu
> *Sent:* Friday, August 31, 2012 6:07 PM
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> *From:* Shawn Wildermuth <[email protected]>
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> *Sent:* Friday, August 31, 2012 5:00:52 PM
> *Subject:* RE: [OT] Windows 8: how quickly will it be adopted?****
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> 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
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> *From:* [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Chris Sells
> *Sent:* Friday, August 31, 2012 3:43 PM
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> The JS support for building Win8 apps is excellent.****
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> *From:* [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mike
> *Sent:* Friday, August 31, 2012 12:39 PM
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> 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.****
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> 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.  ****
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> I'm amazed that people find Apple UIs intuitive, but don't find Windows 8
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> 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.****
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