Say what you will about MS's blunders, but I've always found their developer support and outreach to be top notch.
Although they've yet to offer me a free phone.
Although they've yet to offer me a free phone.
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And if you ask me that's precisely the response MS should give to requests such as yours. I mean, would you really expect them to port their SDK over so that a handful of Linux devs will consider trying it out? Doesn't seem like there would be a big payoff. I bet a majority of devs who use Linux wouldn't even consider it. After making a WP7 app at my day job I sure wouldn't.
There are developers who'll follow the money, wherever it is. Some very good ones won't.
Or, like I said elsewhere, Microsoft has the best developers money can buy. Platforms like WebOS have the best ones money can't buy.
Oh... And I'd be perfectly fine with a VM image with Windows and the WP7 dev tools. I just don't want to boot into Windows or buy a license so that I can make their product more attractive.
Would you pay the $100/year AppHub fee to publish apps for WP7 if you ended up liking it?
This sort of argument just reminds of all those who whine about having to buy a Mac to do iOS development but in reality they wouldn't be doing iOS dev anyways, they just like to loudly cite all the reasons that they're not doing it for some reason.
Heck, even Postgres has portable tools. The GUI installer & PgAdminIII look exact everywhere.
Probably because he trolls Microsoft story submissions all the time.
And this just shows how amazing Microsoft's developer support and outreach really is. As long as you give them money, they support you. If you don't run Windows, they don't really care about you.
No, thanks. My software, my rules.
And, besides that, it's not like WP7 is gaining much support from manufacturers, or market share.
Fortunately, the mass majority of programmers in the world program in and/or on Windows. When MS is inviting programmers on their WP7 platform, you can safely assume they don't mean you.
The Apple/Microsoft development scenario is equal. XCode is free, Visual Studio Express is free. You don't really need an MSDN subscription at all.
And this just shows how amazing Microsoft's developer support and outreach really is. As long as you give them money, they support you.
And this is why MS releases great dev tools, resources, documents, blogs, etc for free? They're offering a 2 day intensive WP7 programming e-course next week. Cost? Free.
If you don't run Windows, they don't really care about you.
Of course not. Does Apple care about you if you aren't using a Mac or an iPad? No. Does the Ubuntu team care about you if you're not using Ubuntu? Of course not.
it's not like WP7 is gaining much support from manufacturers, or market share.
Aside from Acer, Dell, Nokia, HTC, Samsung, Huwei, etc?
You're right about market share, but they've been at it less than a year with an OS with a rather mediocre feature set. Let's see how things are another year from now with Mango and beyond. Android took a while to kick in, too. I have to ask again. You go off and troll every. single. Microsoft thread, but you claim to shun and abhor them.
So why are you here trolling up discussions?