Fort_Major
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2006
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- 425
Wow, you just keep digging.
Microsoft is the one who carved the path of a 50,000 year old glacier. You and I, we're just standing in the gaping ravine amongst the rocks and rubble left behind.
As my original point was and will continue stand from both a professional and a personal stance. Microsoft has a long history of "backwards comparability" and I think that all of us think this is great but some of us are willing to let go sort of.
Windows Metro IS not the technological reason to let backwards comparability go by any means. Because barring your precious games, which everybody knows is a major driving force behind all businesses, Windows Metro's API can easily be rivaled by Javascript + JQuery + plugins. And the latter works on all platforms not the smallest portion of Microsoft's future platform.
Microsoft needed to give a damn good compelling reason to build applications that run on 7% of the desktops and 1% of the tablets and convince developers that it was worth to push IT to get "Windows 8".
Windows Metro is actually more the exact opposite.