04.13.12
Posted in Microsoft, Mono at 1:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: TIOBE shows C# on the decline, but Miguel de Icaza still promotes it
THE Microsoft fans from Xamarin, led by a Microsoft MVP and a former Microsoft employee (CEO), make suggestions and recommendations for C# despite the fact that new statistics show C# as declining:
For the last ten years, except for a curious dip in 2004-2005, Java has held the top spot, but has been on a steady decline. It has now dropped to a 17% rating, just under C’s 17.5%; next in the table is C++ holding steady at 8.9%, a rising Objective C at 8.2% (up 3.8%) and a slightly down C# at 7.3%.
Why are some people under the impression that C# is dominant? Maybe in some counties it has got some share, but all in all it’s unimportant and still declining. Xamarin is chasing a dying market, offering something that the development community does not want (Mono is an answer in search of a question). █
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Posted in Microsoft, Windows at 1:38 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Another nail is squeezed into Nokia’s coffin, again by Microsoft’s sheer incompetence
Ryan (DaemonFC) from our IRC channels made us aware that “Apple is thrashing around having its lawyers clean up the effects of their poorly designed software” and he gave this link to support his claim. We mentioned this briefly the last time we wrote about Apple's defects that help Linux. But watch what Nokia/Microsoft are facing.
Nokia collapses as Microsoft bugs take their toll:
Nokia has found a software bug in its Lumia 900 smartphone, its answer to Apple’s iPhone, and is effectively giving the model away until it is fixed, blunting its bid to turn around its fortunes in the United States.
Nokia’s first 4G phone, which it markets with the strapline “an amazingly fast way to connect”, can occasionally lose its data connection as a result of the bug, Nokia said.
Though still the world’s biggest volume maker of cellphones, Nokia lost the top spot in the lucrative smartphone market last year to Apple and Google, in part due to its weak performance in the United States, where its smartphones have slipped to less than a 1 percent market share.
This is so bad that “Nokia drops Lumia 900 price to $0 in response to bug outrage” (still too expensive). Nokia’s shares fall further.
Nokia used to have a strong market share in China, but right now Android dominates there. Why did the Microsoft mole not go with Android? It’s obvious why. A former Microsoft employee emits the article “Windows Phone’s many problems: Should Microsoft give up?”
Well, duh. As my co-host put it:
Microsoft’s WP7 can be summarized by giving the example of a star collapsing in on itself – its dragging everything near it, in with it. Nokia who to be fair have been suffering of late seem now to be in the death throes since their “arrangement” with Microsoft.
Microsoft entryism is expensive. Parts of Nokia are now fleeing back to Linux, but is it too late? █
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Posted in Deception, Free/Libre Software, Microsoft at 1:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Sticking its fork in the competition’s heart
Summary: An example of pro-Microsoft disinformation and rebuttals
THERE were some really terrible blog posts recently about Microsoft’s alleged “relationship” with the FOSS community. It is hard for us to merely ignore these, so here are a couple of them: an example of whitewash and also a response:
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A rather short post today relating to an article which explores Microsoft’s relationship with open source and its future direction.
One might wish to see the comments in Linux Today. █
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