Microsoft on standards, behind the scenes building Windows 8, and more of what I’ve read this week | MSDN Blogs

"[...] we’re on a roll, how about this post on Windows 8, which should be called "Alive and kicking!" via [...]"

Chortke Hesabi

"don't take that guy seriusly. he has been predicting the fall of Microsoft and "Linux will take over the world" for so long that he has lost the track of what is real and what isn't. if you track this guy's articles you can clearly see that whenever any major Microsoft product release is announced he is predicting it will fail! above that, the article is written in the "Linux" category (what a surprise), I guess ZDnet has to feed its Linux-loving audience crap like this to keep them coming back for more!! I remember in 2006 I read an article from this super excited guy who had just visited Google and done some interviews and at the end of the article with super confident predicted that Google will kill Microsoft in the coming years! 6 years later what we see is that Google is losing search engine market share to Bing! (read the related wikipedia article) some people just love to hate Microsoft. Anything Microsoft does their reaction automatically is to hate it with all their guts! Or C++ AMP! it is a perfect example of this phenomenon! it's an OPEN SPECIFICATION, supports all the operating systems and environments (it's an open specification so the compiler designers can choose which OS is their target when they are implementing AMP library into their C++11 compiler) and it can be implemented by anybody! Now look around the internet and see these clowns and "open source" freaks how reacted to Herb Sutter's C++ AMP presentation! it's just disgusting and pathetic! apparently they prefer a dumbed down -subset- of C (e.g. OpenCL) to a full version of C++11 and AMP library! if that's the way they like it it's totally fine! but when you see people call a GPGPU extension to C++11 "unnecessary" then you can safely say they are still stuck in the 70s AND they are just simply trolls! these are the people we are dealing with! they just LOVE to HATE Microsoft (or M$ as they call it)!"

» Microsoft is betting big on Windows 8 ‘Consumer Preview’ Zunited

"[...] there will be some screams of horror, editorials written that are without substance (and those with substance), but Microsoft is not a new pony to the race, it has been around the block a few [...]"

Emi Cyberschreiber

"I stopped reading "Improving power efficiency for applications" on Win8 blog, to read your article. good article! of course as you said "anything following Vista would have been welcomed with open arms"... i can say the same "anything following the stupid article Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols about Win8 DOA would have been welcomed with open arms" lol you got good 5 points. I kinda hope some desktop users stop believing old start menu was better and win8 is bad because it replaced it with new Start Screen. I really feel new start screen is more useful, and prettier, also we still have desktop, taskbar, pinned apps, desktop icons, so its not like all i have to use only its metro UI. also Microsoft has fixed alot of mouse/keyboard interaction in new start menu. I know people is different and not everyone is going to like Metro UI or live tiles, but I have used MS from win 3.1 to win8 dev preview, so I know the changes, and if in 5 minutes i felt comfortable with Metro UI, anyone can do it but only if they want/like it. but anyway, none knows the future, all I know its it wont be DOA and I personally hope win8 will sell good, since even videogames run faster in this dev preview, and also it would help to have alot of metro style apps if I get a win8 tablet. "

Wes Miller

"Good synopsis. Important point, though - "What is not yet clear is whether ARM devices running Windows 8 will also be able to run the apps that can currently run in Windows 7." It's clear that it won't be able to run those apps - at least not without reengineering and recompilation. No Windows 7 apps that exist _right_now_ will run on ARM unmodified. There's no x86/x64 emulation layer."