Fucking Microshat shill organization web site. These pieces of shit should be DDOS'd.

You want a custom background image that's barely visible because of all of those blocks plastered all over it? And you thought this was good design?

>"And you thought this was good design?"

Why are you being rude? Just saying that the background won't be noticed would it be enough

Windows Phone is already shit canned. MS just isn't smart enough to get it.

Quick, give us more of your amazing market insight!

Sure, no problem. Windows Phone will be cancelled in 2015 after MS realizes it's been a massive failure. They'll also lay off 30,000-40,000 people in 2014. And they'll quietly sell off the device division they bought for 7 Billion dollars and take a massive loss.

I think that you missed my point. The guys that was in charge of developing Windows Phone 8 is now the guy in charge of Windows. Windows Phone won't be canceled, it and Windows will become the same thing...just with form factor differences. Same thing with XBOX OS. It's Windows. Things that make sense for the desktop won't be on the XBOX or the Phone...and vice versa. You sound like you aren't a metro fan...They do need to make sure that the desktop is still a useful tool...but here's the thing. In 5 years you will be hard pressed to find a monitor of any size or type that isn't touch enabled.

As to selling off the device division...I don't see that happening either. MS needed Nokia's supply chain, and delivery systems. They needed to have a division that knows how to take a device from the drawing board to the shelf quickly...which Nokia should be able to do now that it doesn't have to make money. It's weird, but taking a long term view with the device department just like bing and xbox gives the people in that org some room to move.

I find it crazy how much people dislike one company while another company...also a legal fiction that exists solely to make money...that company is ok. They "get" me...or "it". Like Google's PR moves like "solving death"? Seriously? They sell advertising. Meaning that they sell YOU. I"m under no illusions about MS prior behavior. I'm also under no illusions that Apple or Google are somehow different. They aren't.

It's ridiculous that you think that

"Google is so ridiculous that they're willing to lose big money by not making its glorified ad service on the platform."

On the contrary, Google is brilliant by not wasting their time and money on an irrelevant platform that has no hope for success and market share adoption.

LOL, I laughed out loud when I read the line about Tumblr. What a conceited little shit this person must be.

TLDR; couldn't make it in the valley so I skipped the country.

Just like Microsoft copied Java with C# they are now trying to copy Go. Always late to the party as usual.

Ignoring the fact that the post directly references Rust and D (languages that are actually similar to this effort), they have no reason to copy anything from Go because existing Microsoft libraries and languages already do everything Go does with more mature libraries and a more mature runtime (for example, unlike Go, Microsoft's runtime has a precise garbage collector!)

>I would much rather be locked into a single platform for which there is an awesome language.

So you would rather be locked into a single crappy platform with a crappy language that only works on that single crappy platform?

> So you would rather be locked into a single crappy platform with a crappy language that only works on that single crappy platform?

Please explain how you arrived at that conclusion.