Have been offering a refund from day 1 (months back) and the person just keeps finding more problems/feature requests but won't take their money back.
We rarely get these, most users love our apps and repeatedly tell us our customer support is exceptional. I will consider the auto responder thank you.
Yes, that is one of the reasons I haven't put the form anyone can just fill it with gibberish just to get to the download. But I have asked a few people who have compulsory forms and all of them say that people fill them in and mostly accurately. So I don't know its confusing.
The note sounds like a good idea.
I'm hesitant to ask for specific feedback since its Silverlight and not Html 5 or something cooler. Most people will be instantly turned off.
A form with just the persons name and email and optionally organization and how they plan to use the software. Something similar but much shorter from the optional one already on the download page.
Its the full version without any restrictions except it contains a watermark that links back to the site.
Even if I did put a compulsory form I would make it clear that you'll only be contacted for suggestions on product direction and never ever a sales pitch.
- Guest 1: Windows 7 3 GB RAM, for VS 2010, for Silverlight development
- Guest 2: Win XP 512 MB RAM - for testing with IE6
- Guest 3: Ubuntu 9.04 (need to update)
This works really well, and Win 7 is snappy and VS 2010 works flawlessly. On OSX I always have Chrome, AntiRSI, Things, TextMate, Terminal, NetNewsWire and iTunes open.
A big advantage is that I can fearlessly install things on Windows, I simply back up the VM before any installs/updates.
This config does work pretty well, except 8GB RAM does fall short sometimes. In my experience, VM performance takes a nose dive the moment OSX starts swapping, this is something I watch and now have to re-boot almost everyday (gone are the month long sessions).
> Adobe is doing it with Flash. Sun/Oracle does it with Java. FOSS projects do it even with C/C++ code. Javascript, HTML, AJAX, PDF, .doc.
Adobe is doing it because its in their direct interest to port to as many platforms as possible.
> Microsoft claims that they have developed a "standard" called .net, so it's their responsibility to maintain the ecosystem in a manner that makes .net code portable.
When google started Android shouldn't they have used the already existing open standard J2ME for their stuff? But since they're google they can ignore any standard and fragment any space.
You cannot actually expect microsoft to invest millions of dollars into platforms where there is guaranteed to be no return. It is a standard, if you want to use go ahead and implement it yourself. Mono does this, they even get help from microsoft, including the testing suites to silverlight etc.
> Now you're just trolling.
No I'm not trolling. My point is its alright when google keeps its core revenue maker, its search engines, code and algos top secret. If however microsoft does the same for their core revenue streams they get called evil.
Also, even microsoft encourages people to use their stuff to build on top off, its just a different view point where a lot of it isn't open source.
Yes I have. Thats not what I meant, my point was if you use any company's work to build a product that eats into their own core revenue, they will go after you no matter how open they claim to be.
A sincere question, why is the onus on microsoft to make sure its .net stuff runs on "one of Google's new fangled hand-held devices"?
Also, how is "They continue to attack, with legal action or threats, any open source that competes with any of their core products." any different from what other companies do ? How do you think google would react if some one was to brand and name a search engine similar to theirs ? What about Red-Hat ? If I was to take their distro and start selling it as Red-Hat Enhanced Pro Super Cool version what you think their response would be.
The way I see it, its easy for companies like google to beat the open drum because it does not hurt their core business, microsoft however sees direct impact on revenue.
My karma goes down 4 then up 4, and is pretty much stagnant. I should make a clarification here, I do not support patents at all. The above rant is merely directed towards double standards.
I don't care if I get down voted to oblivion for this, but I can't take the assholery anymore. When Apple et. al. file such suits its strategic, when they arbitrarily try to kill stuff its also strategic and jobs being jesus.Microsoft so much as moves a muscle and Apple trolls that have infested todays 'new' media and companies such as the above swing into action. Fucking 37 signals, what a sad day indeed.
While encryption may save your data, you can't really brick the computer. Take out hard-disk throw in trash, replace with new 50$ disk, welcome to you're new macbook pro.