Windows 8's Achilles' heel: Metro applications
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Jul 2012 23:39 UTC
Windows Ars Technica is running an interesting article about the Mail application on Windows 8. It's one of the first party Metro applications, and Ars' conclusion is that it's really, really not up to snuff - it can't even compare favourably to the mail application on Windows Phone. The sad thing is, however - this applies to virtually all Metro applications.
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RE[3]: Too many platforms
by lucas_maximus on Sun 15th Jul 2012 10:58 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Too many platforms"
lucas_maximus
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You can see how powerful APIs like POSIX, SDL and Qt are by looking at how applications are released on POSIX systems. Virtually EVERY application you have on Linux compiles flawlessly on *BSD or MacOSX (with Macports, for example).


This isn't true, ask any guy on the OpenBSD ports team, how linux specific some source code is.

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