[...] We got into this industry because, quite frankly, we are control freaks. It's who we are. It's what we do. [...] - ROTFL, so true!
- Daniele Muscetta
@sstranger busy? (to @pzerger) that's not it: would be great to go to Berlin, but with budget cuts you either go as a presenter or u don't.
Windows, Office, Mobile... I don't know. But the part about Development toolkits etc has some truth in that "[...]my mind would fork itself in about five different directions[...]"... [...] Dev Div: If I had to sit down tomorrow and write a casual application for the PC, my mind would fork itself in about five different directions. Native with ATL? WPF? Silverlight? An HTA? And what's up with XNA? If I want to write an app for the Zune (which Zune?) what do I do? And can it run on some future mobile device? And the PC? And Xbox? And how do I share it? How do I sell it? And, ah, crap, you mean you just released a whole new version of C# / Silverlight / XNA that I have to go and relearn? Maybe those free Starbucks coffee dispensers wasn't a good idea... If anything, I'd probably be pretty damn tempted to invest time learning Adobe AIR. And I'm thinking that while smack dab in the middle of the Microsoft bubble. There are a lot of Partners in Dev Div, and I'm not seeing any benefit from...
- Daniele Muscetta