Windows Management Framework V5 Preview

Re:Windows Management Framework V5 Preview by untog on Friday April 04, 2014 @09:57AM (#7531410)

Almost a meta comment, but Microsoft seems to be knocking their BUILD conference out of the park this year. I think we've already seen more notable announcements and improvements than we'll see at WWDC.

Just the fact that there was a talk about developing iOS apps by the founder of Xamarin is telling. The fact that he was wearing Google Glass is another...

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Re:Windows Management Framework V5 Preview by duaneb on Friday April 04, 2014 @12:49PM (#7532648)

Yes, things are looking healthy for Microsoft's developer reputation. Now if only they implemented C99 and full POSIX....

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Re:Windows Management Framework V5 Preview by astrodust on Friday April 04, 2014 @01:20PM (#7532878)

If they could make Windows actually POSIX compliant and have a proper shell it would be a massive step forward for the platform.

It's not that Windows is different, but that Windows is just plain broken and there's heaps of hacks on top of that to try and deal with the awful design. PowerShell is an attempt to fix CMD which is an attempt to fix batch files and the feeble CPM inspired command prompt.

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Re:Windows Management Framework V5 Preview by kasabali on Saturday April 05, 2014 @09:28AM (#7537003)

You know Microsoft had a POSIX subsystem in Windows not long ago, right? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754351.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

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Re:Windows Management Framework V5 Preview by duaneb on Monday April 07, 2014 @11:10AM (#7546901)

That's a very minimal definition of POSIX.

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