[MsAne]

I swear i think MS cant come up with nothing on their own, they now coming out with IronRuby their version of ruby on rails.

Plus they want to be part of EVERYTHING. Silverlight is suppose to be the Adobe flash competitor

[skyhawk133]

http://en.wikipedia..../Market_economy

I say good on em'. Ruby is having problems lately anyway. This might light a fire under their asses. It's a good language to program in, just has some major scalability issues.

[MsAne]

skyhawk133, on 10 Jun, 2008 - 02:53 PM, said:

http://en.wikipedia..../Market_economy

I say good on em'. Ruby is having problems lately anyway. This might light a fire under their asses. It's a good language to program in, just has some major scalability issues.

True this will definitely spark Ruby up. But MS has to be more creative. They just grab ppl's ideas, modify it, and get full creditability for it

[supersloth]

I wonder which direction this thread is going to go in...

[BetaWar]

Silverlight has some major issues at this point from what I have seen, so I am not sure if it will catch on with non-Microsoft fanboys/girls

[Jayman]

MsAne, on 10 Jun, 2008 - 02:58 PM, said:

They just grab ppl's ideas, modify it, and get full creditability for it

Well they are making money hand over fist. So I think their strategy is working quite well for them.

Why fix what isn't broken?

[Mikhail]

Well many places are coming with their own version of ruby, as long as they dont change much on it ill probably try IronRuby.

[WolfCoder]

MsAne, on 10 Jun, 2008 - 03:58 PM, said:

True this will definitely spark Ruby up. But MS has to be more creative. They just grab ppl's ideas, modify it, and get full creditability for it

Well it worked, didn't it?

[mensahero]

That's how business goes.... when they think its a good investment then they'll go for it..

IMO... that's how microsoft work.. they see something with potential.. they take the IDEA and developed it into a more customer oriented type.. and they are really good at it.. when its all about money.. its always a good investment to develop something that has proven itself to have potential in the market..

This post has been edited by mensahero: 11 June 2008 - 01:08 AM

[RodgerB]

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I swear i think MS cant come up with nothing on their own, they now coming out with IronRuby their version of ruby on rails.

Cry?

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Silverlight has some major issues at this point from what I have seen, so I am not sure if it will catch on with non-Microsoft fanboys/girls

I think it is because Microsoft has randomly become very, very strict with their permissions. Creating an XBAP application that doesn't require full trust.. for even accessing a web service.. is a LOT of effort.

Who can be bothered with digital certificates...

[MitkOK]

MsAne, on 11 Jun, 2008 - 12:50 AM, said:

I swear i think MS cant come up with nothing on their own, they now coming out with IronRuby their version of ruby on rails.

Why are people still posting absolute nonsense ?

[1lacca]

Funny topic name, especially that they've just told on a press conference, that they are not copy cats, so no "Zune phone" is coming - why should they, their OS licensees do it for them anyway.

[KYA]

Microsoft is a business, just like any other. Flame me if you want.

It's like hamburgers. You might be able to cook a better hamburger then McDonald's, but can you sell it better then McDonald's?

[MitkOK]

KYA, on 11 Jun, 2008 - 01:30 PM, said:

... but can you sell it better then McDonald's?

[mensahero]

MitkOK, on 11 Jun, 2008 - 02:43 AM, said:

MsAne, on 11 Jun, 2008 - 12:50 AM, said:

I swear i think MS cant come up with nothing on their own, they now coming out with IronRuby their version of ruby on rails.

Why are people still posting absolute nonsense ?

well... this is the Caffeine Lounge.. topics which is absolute nonsense to you could be full of sense to anyone..

FYI this forum is meant for topics like this..