![]() Win32 API is “inelegant” when compared to modern alternatives (or it can be seen as “from a more civilized age” as being very low level). They’ve tried to put full Windows on phones – twice! – and nobody wanted that either. They’ve been trying to just kind of coast by on Windows 10, and as the above article notes, it’s been quite problematic. They tried combining the two into one with an adaptable UI – and everybody hated it. They’ve tried creating a version of Windows only capable of running ‘modern’ apps, and it failed – twice (and a third attempt is on the way). ![]() How much freedom to push the Windows platform forward do you really have when all users want is to run the same set of Win32 applications in perpetuity? ![]() They don’t want ‘modern’ apps forced upon them, they don’t want touch-optimised user interfaces, they don’t want application stores, and they certainly don’t want Windows anywhere else but their desktops and laptops. It seems most Windows users want Windows to just be… Windows. That’s a lot of reshuffling, but I wonder what the purpose of it all really is. We’ve seen plenty of evidence of that with a messy development experience for Windows 10, delayed Windows updates, a lack of major new features, and lots of Windows update issues recently. It’s an admission that the big Windows split didn’t work quite as planned. Specifically, that means the Windows fundamentals and developer experience teams have been returned to what we traditionally call the Windows team. Now, Microsoft is moving parts of Windows development back under Panos Panay’s control. Microsoft moved core Windows development to a cloud and AI team (Azure), and created a new group to work on Windows 10 “experiences” like apps, the Start menu, and new features. It follows Microsoft’s decision to slice Windows into two parts more than two years ago after the departure of former Windows chief Terry Myerson. Tags Advanced Rest Client Algorithm AngularJs Avro Book Summary Capybara Cascading Cloud Cobertura Coherence Cucumber Design Docker Dozer ExpressJs Flow Diagram Flume FreeMarker Gerrit Git Go Google Chart Google Maps API Groovy GSON Hackathon Hadoop HBase Health HK2 Http Caching Interview Itext Jackson Jackson-databind Jackson-Jr Jacoco Java Javascript Jenkins JSON Junit Kafka Lambda Maven MEAN Mockito MongoDB Motivation Networking NodeJs Openstack Pig Postman Powermock Productivity Relaxation REST Riak Scala Solr Spark Spark-csv Spock SSH Technology Testing Tips Ubntu UML Unix WireMock XML Zookeeper Archivesįollow Bala's Blog on WordPress.The software giant placed Surface chief Panos Panay in charge of Windows earlier this year, and is now reshuffling parts of that team.
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