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No way that will get on anything I own!

Dec 15, 08 - 10:09 am Comment from: MCCFR

MDN, you'd better be careful if you're going to allege that Star Wars isn't real.

There a lot of people who read this site who probably also hang out at comic book conventions and who think that Klingon is a real language.

Dec 15, 08 - 10:15 am Comment from: Connor MacBook

iPhone is going to eschew up Windows Mobile and spit it out!

Dec 15, 08 - 10:21 am Comment from: MCCFR

Oh and what MikeR said as well.

MSFT needs to get its marketing messages straight: since the iPhone was launched, it has done nothing but send out snide messages about how poor the platform is. Ditto, iPod, iTunes and - by implication - iPod touch.

Now why would I buy an app from a company that disparages my choice in portable platform?

"Now why would I buy an app from a company that disparages my choice in portable platform?"

It's free.

Dec 15, 08 - 10:58 am Comment from: EvilRonin

So MikeR, just because it's from MS it won't get on anything you own? That's kinda dumb. Now if you actually evaluated it and didn't like it, that would be a different story.

Dec 15, 08 - 11:00 am Comment from: MrScrith

@mccfr

But Klingon is a real language! The Bible has been translated to the Klingon language, that makes it a real Language!

They're just practicing for when they rip off the iPhone SDK and need to start making apps for the next generation of Windows Mobile touchscreen devices.

just downloaded it, thats amazing.

Didn't realise the iPhone can zoom in that far into detail of the plastic penuts... they should have just called it foam nibblets....

So how is this Seadragon software supposed to be important? It is the format in which the image is stored that makes the app possible. Does this mean I have to look at a gigapixel image across a wireless connection instead of downloading it in its entirety and viewing all of its pixel awesomeness. This is a problem with Google maps, even though I've searched for a location, it won't store the high res data... which doesn't help when I'm underground in the subway.

MW = got. As in, I don't got it.

Dec 15, 08 - 11:06 am Comment from: Predrag

EvilRonin:

MikeR has a valid reason. MS is an abusive monopoly in the computer software industry. For decades, their business practices were such that they stiffled competition, innovation and consumers' choice. They show no signs of changing this business practice. Regardless of the merit of any MS application, MikeR (as well as many other people) strongly believes that when one buys products and services from such an entity, he becomes an instrument in that monopolistic abuse.

This kind of thinking (boycotting anti-consumer companies) is rather common across Europe. Not so much in the US, where consumers' convenience and comfort overrides any issues of principle.

Dec 15, 08 - 11:10 am Comment from: since1985

MCCFR, add to that list of Apple products that M$ derides: the Mac -- when recently M$ had talking points about "the Apple tax" and about being able to get the full experience of M$ Office only on Windows, not the Mac (as if that was Apple's doing).

Selling software to Mac customers at high prices and then dissing their Mac platform is the same reason why I turned away from Avid long ago. IM(not so)HO, there are better alternatives than M$ and Avid, anyway.

Dec 15, 08 - 11:48 am Comment from: deepdish

downloaded it, tried it. Cool for 10 secs. Whats the point of this app?

@MCCFR

Any language is 'real' provided it continues to be used as a means of communication. The only reason Latin is a 'dead' language is that it has fallen out of use.

Looks like fun. Don't mind giving this a try.

Dec 15, 08 - 12:17 pm Comment from: qka

which doesn't help when I'm underground in the subway.

What technologically backwards country/city do you live in?

Truly advanced cities have wireless phone reception available in the underground.

I knew it!
Usain Bolt is a hologram!

@Predrag

I agree with you. I was tempted to buy it today (free as it is), just as I was tempted to get the MS Office when it was on a super sale during the Black Thursday. On each occasion, I passed their offer. I don't appreciate some of Microsoft's business policies. Also, maybe as someone else had once said more succinctly, "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste."

MDN MW: elements

It would be nice if Microsoft could release following aps on iphone:
- Excel
- Word
- Powerpoint
- Visio

Dec 15, 08 - 02:23 pm Comment from: TowerTone

It works fine (great actually).
Oh, wait, I guess that makes me the Devil.....

Dec 15, 08 - 03:31 pm Comment from: NCIceman

Ironically, I know who Jabba the Hutt is, but I don't know who Usain Bolt is...so which one is really real?

Just further proof that Apple makes the best hardware to run any software. Even MSFT have to admit that.

Dec 15, 08 - 05:29 pm Comment from: Brau

"They're just practicing for when they rip off the iPhone SDK and need to start making apps for the next generation of Windows Mobile touchscreen devices."

Couldn't agree more. OF course when they do they'll claim it's all built upon their own original ideas dating back from QDOS ... and the Windows fanboys will just eat it up.

Dec 16, 08 - 12:51 am Comment from: ken1w

There's no need to hate everything with a Microsoft label. I use a Microsoft mouse, and I think it is a perfectly fine mouse (more usable than an Apple Mighty Mouse). But it is fun to ridicule Microsoft, as a company, because they so often seem amusingly inept and unfocused. Microsoft today is a shadow of Microsoft ten years ago, when it was a company the competition feared.