I have observed that in this IT field many people like to criticise Microsoft. People hate Microsoft, as if its their hobby. They will use Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office Suite and most the the Microsoft products but then also keep criticizing it.

Lets look back at history. Windows has become a standard and majority of people use it. one myth that is common among people is that "Apple OS is good for designers". I do not know whats the reason behind this myth but I find it really wierd when Apple is considered good for designers. Windows platform has much more tools than any other platform for designers. With emerging technologies like WPF Windows is the best platform for designing and development.

Linux desktop have copied each and every feature of Windows and the open source community keep on copying Microsoft Office Suite in the name of Open Office. Open Office is such a wierd product that most of the time you will use it hoping that it doesn't crash. I am now wondering how open source community will copy Office 2007. But I am sure there are many copy cats who can easily do it.

Now a days people are creating hype about Apollo and Flex. When I had a look at what these two products are, I found that Apollo and Flex is just the replica of .NET Framework. They are talking so loud about Flash and Flex. Guys Flash is just an animation software which was made with the intention of being a preloader. It cannot take place of programming Language. Apollo people are giving counts of Apollo runtime downloads. Dot NET Framework is downloaded four times more than their Apollo runtime.

WPF technology and .NET Framework 3.0 brings in the years of experience of Microsoft in programming field. WPF is really a revolution. The combination of WPF/Expression Suite with the programming capabilities of Visual Studio makes it the best Programming Suite ever available.

One day I was just trying to open a file in Flash, would you believe Actionscript is such a wierd language that simple task like writing/reading file looks almost difficult, infact I don't count any of the Adobe's new product as programming language products, they are only desperate ways of competing with Microsoft.

Let this year of 2007 come to an end then we will see where this Apollo and Flex stand :D

I would like to apologize for my comments. Since I am passionate about some technology doesn't mean I should have written what I have.

I know I have hurt a lot of people and I sincerely apologize for it.

I made a mistake and I wish that I wasn't sober while writing that. I will do my best to learn from it.

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4/11/2007 2:28:03 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
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Newlaunches.com has published a list of Top 10 Apple products that flopped. People know Apple for its series of products starting with supersticious "i" like ipod, imac etc. but many of you might not be knowing about the products developed by Apple that flopped badly. This list by Newlanches.com gives us an idea of the top 10 flop products of Apple.

This kind of lists are always debatable and many of you might think otherwise, but I had fun going through this list. This list of flop includes the "Apple Cyberdog" product that Apple released to compete with Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

Another such product was "Apple Pippin" which was the technology of multimedia player marketed by Apple, they were able to sell only 42000 units.

 Have a look at the whole list on Newlaunces.com.

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4/2/2007 1:46:15 AM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
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