25 Sep
2011
25 Sep
'11
5:13 p.m.
On 25 September 2011 16:33, Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
I want to see *precisely* where MS said that Win32 and .Net are being
deprecated. ?I'm calling shennanigans.
MS didn't; it's in the analysis. It's not a big leap of deduction, though.
E.g.
<http://www.osnews.com/story/25158/Crossing_the_Rubicon_Microsoft_Lays_Windows_8_Bare>
<http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/sasha/archive/2011/09/15/winrt-and-net-in-windows-8.aspx>
<http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/WinRT>
(which conflicts nicely with the previous one....)
<http://blogs.remobjects.com/blogs/mh/2011/09/17/p3168>
<http://www.internetappdeveloper.com/?p=1319>
Enough?
It's early days yet - this OS is not even in beta yet - but the
writing is on the wall.
Frankly .NET was only ever an arse-covering response to the threat of
breakup that the DOJ lawsuit brought. Since that scare went away, its
main /raison d'etre/ went away.
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In Win8 there is a whole new programming model for
creating apps with
the new interface, which will coexist with the existing "desktop"
interface. Win32 and .NET are effectively deprecated from Win8 on.
It's a very big deal in ?the PC world. A preview release has been
available since the MICROS~1 "BUILD" conference, about a week ago.