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Wednesday, 25 December 2013

Bill Gates would had changed to world more if he had bought and open sourced the Windows XP code base

I was reading the Wired Magazine that Bill edited and although Bill has done amazing things with his philanthropic activities, part of me things what would had been achieved if he had bought from Microsoft the Windows XP Operating System and Open Sourced it?

Here is an alternative reality that might had been much better for him and the world:

Microsoft should sell Fully Patched Windows XP licenses (or open source it)

Microsoft should sell Windows XP because its newer operating systems should be so much better than Windows XP that its customers would be happy to buy the newer versions.

Where Is .NET Headed? and the cost for Microsoft of ignoring the O2 Platform

Here is good post from Scott Allen on the topic Where Is .NET Headed?

I agree with Scoot that the .Net community is not as healthy as it could be, and that Microsoft should Open Source .NET (see some of the comments)

Of course that I'm biased, but I think that the fact that Microsoft (and the .NET community) keeps ignoring all the .Net innovation and ideas that I have been publishing on the O2 Platform (see all these blog posts) speaks volumes for the lack of adoption of new ideas.

For example, at the moment the O2 C# REPL and the FluentSharp APIs, actually allow faster and more efficient development than VisualStudio (you can also use O2+FluentSharp inside VisualStudio)

Yes, I know that I don't play Microsoft's game of singing NDAs and be part of their MVPs club, but that is no reason to ignore what is going on.

And yes there are still tons of usability problems in the current version of the O2 Platform (not that VisualStudio can really claim that mantra), BUT, the point of innovation is that it is rough around the edges.