Update: consumers realized this years ago. This is why Google has to announce messaging apps two at a time and cancel them next year. This is why Microsoft products are so extremely popular on Android.
On the other side of the fence Apple breaks compatibility all the time (see OpenGL vs Metal 2). Yet you can run Windows 10 on comparatively lower specced hardware while still being able to run apps developed for Windows XP.
Do those binaries actually import OpenGL symbols?
I wonder if the courts will agree this applies to content that web servers transmit to google’s crawler. If so, can I add such an agreement to my homepage, and claim it applies to all the http requests I initiate?:
> When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.
Edit: disagreement apparently but I’ve never seen a serious company that wasn’t in danger or recovering from a breech using it. Maybe it’s just coincidence.
In the all examples you mention, was it specifically Gsuite that was breached? I've always belived Gmail had fantastic security, so I'd be very interested to learn more about any breaches in their core gmail/gsuite offerings.
this is a bad metric, since a million user using the service for all of 1 minute at the same time is not the same as 1 user using it for a million minutes. As a business, i would rather the latter.
Time to live is the "proper" metric.
The new Microsoft just cancelled UWP. Their latest attempt to scare the hell away all developers.
UWP is alive and well, just go check the BUILD 2019 sessions.
Apparently some keep missing the point that all new Windows APIs are based on UWP.
There is much so more to UWP that the store.
The only thing that are doing is bringing the legacy stacks (Win32, Forms, WPF) and the modern one (WinUI, UWP) under the same umbrella.
You see, they don't have the courage to admit defeat. Just let it die and pretend it never existed.
UWP was the fix to WinRT and UAP changes introduced by Sinosfky's team.
Again, UWP is not only for Windows Phone, all Windows 10 new APIs are UWP based, there isn't any Win32 version of them.
People are able to keep using their legacy skills to write new apps, because Microsoft seldom plays an Apple move, killing any possibility to keep using legacy stacks on modern OSes.
If you miss XNA you can go use MonoGame, which Microsoft even advises on MSDN nowadays.
And Blazor for Silverlight like use cases.
When WP needed 3rd party games to have a chance in the consumer market Microsoft killed their fully functioning and very popular xna platform without explanation. For a while there was no replacement and the standard response from Microsoft was silence.
Later Microsoft pointed to mono as a replacement. At that time, mono was slow, buggy and incomplete. In fact, for a long time mono was missing the asset pipeline tools. According to their official tutorials you had to dig up an old copy of xna and use their asset tools.
UWP was never about Windows Phone only, rather Windows Phone, HoloLens, XBox ONE, 2-1 devices and Windows 10 desktops.
So Windows Phone failed, plenty of scenarios still available on Windows 10 deployments.
How many companies that still care about the desktop at all are going to invest resources in Windows only frameworks and not something like Electron? How many of those that are writing native Windows apps are going to use UWP instead of Win32?
macOS is largely insignificant in many countries over here outside iOS shops, GNU/Linux hardly matters for consumers, the Web still fails short of many native scenarios and mobile devices are mainly for consumption.
I’m nowhere near Silicon Valley, but I can say that hardly any money is going into desktop software development. Companies are following Microsoft’s lead. Even c# shops are strategizing how to get rid of their Windows dependencies by going to .Net Core.
Those never got any traction to begin with. If people aren't using it, they wont miss it.
Their new from-scratch rewrite is based on Python and web standards.
Guess what happened to those platforms?