Steven W, 2019-03-30 01:50 »
Well, it hardly comes as a surprise but the coming Edge browser, based off of Chromium, is gonna be a Win32/64 application (duh). I sorta chuckle at times at how disorganized Microsoft has become. Was there ever an exit plan from Win32? Did they think that establishing one before trying killing it off might have been a good step?
Oh, hey! We're going forward, Windows 10 users are gonna get a UWP version of Office:
https://www.neowin.net/news/moving-forw ... et-office/
Sure, they suck and watered-down versions of the Win32/64 versions, but no worries, they're also a portal to Office365. Oh, nevermind:
https://winbuzzer.com/2018/09/28/micros ... rt-xcxwbn/
The Office mobile apps for Windows have not been deprecated. But for mobile, we are currently prioritizing development for the iOS and Android versions of our apps; and on Windows, we are prioritizing Win32 and web versions of our apps.”
Could you imagine trying to port Office off of Win32 to something else? I bet anyone who has ever written Macros for Excel has a good idea how tied that code must be to the Win32 API. How many man-hours would it take to re-implement all of the functionality of all of the various applications that make up Office? Perhaps a better question is, given that Microsoft ultimately wants to kill Win32, what kind of suckers are going to spend hours writing Macros on a Win32 version of Office? Perhaps put more succinctly, what value does a Win32 version of Office have now? What value is it going to have in three years? In five?
And now? The new Edge browser! UWP? Au contraire! This begs another question, if Microsoft isn't developing for UWP, who the fuck will? I had to download a Win32 application, aka Chrome, and install a user-agent spoofer (to pretend to be android) for my relative's tablet to act like a fucking tablet when it is a fucking tablet. I *almost* regret buying that thing. What was the point of all but ruining Windows? What value is Windows going to have when Win32/64 goes away?
If corporate America ever wakes up like *most* consumers already have, Microsoft is fucked. I've seen some of Microsoft's online tools, Sharepoint for example. It's not that difficult to imagine someone offering something with similar functionality, perhaps simpler to use, cheaper and all around better. Not difficult at all. Hell, for folks that aren't lazy (or too cheap to pay IT personnel), you could already implement something decent on a server that you could maintain control over.
Oh yeah, still seeing reports of people dealing with the faulty patches that break things on a regular basis too. It's all kinda sad.
Well, it hardly comes as a surprise but the coming Edge browser, based off of Chromium, is gonna be a Win32/64 application (duh). I sorta chuckle at times at how disorganized Microsoft has become. Was there ever an exit plan from Win32? Did they think that establishing one before trying killing it off might have been a good step?
Oh, hey! We're going forward, Windows 10 users are gonna get a UWP version of Office:
https://www.neowin.net/news/moving-forward-the-store-will-be-the-way-for-windows-10-users-to-get-office/
Sure, they suck and watered-down versions of the Win32/64 versions, but no worries, they're also a portal to Office365. Oh, nevermind:
https://winbuzzer.com/2018/09/28/microsoft-explains-why-it-is-ending-office-uwp-app-feature-support-xcxwbn/
[quote]The Office mobile apps for Windows have not been deprecated. But for mobile, we are currently prioritizing development for the iOS and Android versions of our apps; and on Windows, we are prioritizing Win32 and web versions of our apps.”[/quote]
Could you imagine trying to port Office off of Win32 to something else? I bet anyone who has ever written Macros for Excel has a good idea how tied that code must be to the Win32 API. How many man-hours would it take to re-implement all of the functionality of all of the various applications that make up Office? Perhaps a better question is, given that Microsoft ultimately wants to kill Win32, what kind of suckers are going to spend hours writing Macros on a Win32 version of Office? Perhaps put more succinctly, what value does a Win32 version of Office have now? What value is it going to have in three years? In five?
And now? The new Edge browser! UWP? Au contraire! This begs another question, if Microsoft isn't developing for UWP, who the fuck will? I had to download a Win32 application, aka Chrome, and install a user-agent spoofer (to pretend to be android) for my relative's tablet to act like a fucking tablet when it is a fucking tablet. I *almost* regret buying that thing. What was the point of all but ruining Windows? What value is Windows going to have when Win32/64 goes away?
If corporate America ever wakes up like *most* consumers already have, Microsoft is fucked. I've seen some of Microsoft's online tools, Sharepoint for example. It's not that difficult to imagine someone offering something with similar functionality, perhaps simpler to use, cheaper and all around better. Not difficult at all. Hell, for folks that aren't lazy (or too cheap to pay IT personnel), you could already implement something decent on a server that you could maintain control over.
Oh yeah, still seeing reports of people dealing with the faulty patches that break things on a regular basis too. It's all kinda sad. :thumbdown: