Comments on: Microsoft offers development tools for Mac, Web

Company readies tools for Mac OS and AJAX-style Web applications, while striving to keep Windows on forefront of "user experience."

[webgodjj]

yawn...

So it seems like a bunch of closed source products loosely based
off of open source ones? This sounds so exciting.

[t8]

Open vs Closed

More closed crap competing with superior open source.

[t8]

Open vs Closed

More closed crap trying to compete with superior open source.

Apple doesn't need Microsoft anything

Why ruin a perfectly good OS like OSX with crappy stuff from Microsoft?

OSX has it's own development tools and there's plenty more Open Source tools available.

indeed

Apple doesn't need any M$ developer tool - no-ones doing any serious Apple Development.

After 25 years in large enterprise organisations, I have yet to see anyone use Apple for ANYTHING, except comic relief.

Show me any organisation spending $100 million+ on development annually, that actually uses any Apple product, and I might then see a need for Apple Developer Tools.

How about improving whats out there?

How about first getting MS Office to work? Or Virtual PC to stop
crashing on Tiger? Or hey! Here's an idea, what about updating
that ANCIENT MSN Messenger app for folks that want to use that?

C'mon, MS is just looking for media attention, as usual. Yes, Troll-
ish, but true.

[bdkennedy1]

I agree...

If this new web suite works anything like Office, it's nothing to look
forward to. Word has to scan through my hundreds of fonts before
it opens. What's up with that?

[muntz]

'gadgets'

'gadgets'

jeez, they couldn't wait to steal this idea from Apple (yeah-yeah,
but before Konfabulator, Apple had desktop widgets which trump
Konfabulators modern looking widgets--at least Apple made them
useful by putting them in their own layer over the desktop). Can MS
do anything original at all? Seriously.

[bdkennedy1]

Ummmm...Wrong

As much as I hate Microsoft, "gadgets" aren't new to them. They've
been toying with them since the ill-fated Microsoft Bob from 1995.

[Earl Benser]

MS definitely has vision problems....

... it has a clear view of the road ahead and all the great and
wonderful things it could accomplish....

,,, while ignoring the trails of defective software, security breaches,
and just plain lousy program designs and programming that bob in
MS's wake....

So what's new?????

[bdkennedy1]

No IE but development tools?

I find it interesting that Microsoft dropped IE for the Mac but now
they're going to have a web suite for the Mac? Weird.

[Pixelslave]

Sparkle is not a Flash Killer

Do writer of technical news really understand what they are writing? Sparkle is NOT a Flash killer. For one, the chances that designers dumb Flash in favor of Sparkle is thinner than the winner of the Big Looser. Secondly, the main audience of Sparkle are the people who design "DESKTOP APPLICATION". Yes, those people who designs the interface of applications like PhotoShop, Office, Flash (insert your favorite or least favorite apps here.) A Sparkle project is part of a, say, a C# project. According to a video from Channel9, Sparkle itself is done by Sparkle. What does it have to do with a "Flash Killer"? I don't know -- I can only say that the reporters just don't get it, so they pick the only thing they can understand from Sparkle -- building interactive web graphics and call it a "Flash Killer".