A couple of years back (2006) I made an observation that it was becoming increasingly popular for new developers to rely on materials online instead of at least having a copy of the JDK JavaDocs downloaded for reference – at the time I called this ‘Coding Blind’. This article today caught my eye and gave developers who overly rely on Google to find snippets of code the name ‘Google Programmers’. I guess it’s not just me who has noticed this trend.
Windows Mobile store launches with … 34 apps
Wow, if I hadn’t replaced my Windows Mobile phone with an Android myTouch 3G I would be having a great time right now looking through the immense catalog of … 34 … applications in the newly launched Windows Mobile store.
34? Come on Ballmer, get it together. Is this supposed to be impressive in some way? Did you code these apps yourself in your spare time? Surely you could have got some of your Windows 7 developers to code up a few Windows Mobile apps when they weren’t working on Windows 7, cause after all, we all know Windows 7 is just Vista with new marketing, so exactly what have the Windows development team been working on recently? Not coding Windows Mobile apps, obviously.
Ballmer’s three Windows 7 versions: Starter, Home, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate
In a recent interview with Steve Ballmer, cnet.com asked about the confusion over the different available versions of Windows 7. Ballmer replied “There’s really three versions” and then went on to describe each of the versions: Starter, Home, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate.
I don’t know about you but if I was a Microsoft stockholder I would be extremely worried with this guy in charge of one of the largest technology companies in the world. It seems to me Ballmer is doing his best, most likely unintentionally, to steer the company off of a cliff.
Windows 7 ‘Steve Ballmer’ edition?!
I’m at a lost for words to imagine exactly what the attraction of a limited edition ‘Steve Ballmer’ signature version of Windows 7 is. Maybe it jumps round shouting ‘developers, developers, developers!’? Maybe it’s just fat and sweaty. Whatever. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t make me want Windows 7 anymore than I currently do, which is about as much as I want to get hit round the head with a 2 by 4.