I am real - see, you care about little developers. Most are as competent as you (which means they are idiots). And decisions on this line are made by managers. Not that they are more competent (most are not), but heck, they do not even LISTEN to the moron developers. The result is - it will takeMS a LOT more problems to make a dent in the enterprise world than some wanking morons like you not reading documentation.
This is called sideloading and I mentioned in my previous post so the idiot part is not necessarily appropriate in this case. Before you use something like that at least read the post you replying to. To show small snippet just to repeat the same is dishonest. I do not even know why I am replying. Bottom line is that as a small progarmmer you can sideload apps as well. It will cost you $3000 for the first machine but heck, another 99 is free! So again you have incomplete information; now the enterprise part: The point is that store or not store app has to be certified by Microsoft and that includes updates (allow few days for processing for your mission critical update). Next important point is that it cost money: store, sideloading license, enterprise edition licensing means that you as a developer are working for Microsoft now generating continuous revenue stream. Certified means that if it does not meet their requirements then it will not be allowed for installation. They will decide what is best for you.
Unless you are using application not targeting new WinRt Runtime (Metro) then you are not taking full advantage of these capabilities. If you are using desktop application on Win8 it is not run utilizing WinRT because you are basically running on Windows 7.
Actually you are. See, reading helps - even if people like you consider that useless. The whole Direct2d interface got seriously accelerated and that is very benefivial for any program that does a LOT of graphical work old fasioned. Like updating text (price information), drawing lines (charts). Stuff like that. You may offacsionally see stuff like that when you watch traders work. Try it out - really. THere is a visible difference.
I am using both Win8 and 7 (not Metro app) and really do not see that much difference in graphics performance but I did not measure it at all.
That's great because the bottleneck for my software has always been drawing text and bar/line charts! Awesome!
and why would anyone want to go through this hassle if you can just code up your own or install any other application on one of the previous Windows OSs, iOS, Linux. Microsoft again is taking a huge gamble on a bet they have done very little to no research on in terms of whether customers like it or not. The result is evidenced in the poor reception of Win8.
See, you do not seem to understand the technology behind. One of the big reasons even 5 year old WinForm charting libraries run circles around even the fastest WPF charting libraries is BECAUSE they are not using a vector based rendering engine. There is no reason in the world why you would want text or charts rendered based on vectors UNLESS you are a graphics designer or gamer. Most certainly any trading application DOES NOT benefit from vector based rendering in the slightest. Period.
I do not know in what sort of top-down planning social or communist economy you were raised but in case you have missed it, a majority of the world operates on market based principles which means that the customer dictates what he/she wants, then management of such companies that want to provide such products need to work with the actual employees that have the skill to create such products. Some of the worst and least skilled people I had the displeasure to work with and who were supposed to deliver products to my trading desks were actually project managers and not the developers. Most always the reason for failed software solutions can be found on the planning and project management level rather than on the execution/implementation level. You are worshipping a company that has a track record of misunderstanding pretty much ANY trend over the past 10 years and trying to hold those hostage that actually are supposed to use their products, which is the developer community. I do not have any idea why you seem to have to disagree with everything others say (I have not seen a single post of yours over the past months in which you did not disagree or initiated fights of some sorts). That would not be a problem if your point made sense and was based on factual information. Unfortunately it looks to me that you have very little to no idea how trading in particular and programming and software development really works. Could it be that you are an extremely disgruntled, depressed sort of person who made his life mission to beg to disagree with anyone else without actually being on top of things himself? And by the way, are you telling us that the fuxxups of Microsoft in a) Web Search (Bling is a nobody and will never gain momentum) b) Mobile (their slate and win7 phones are completely behind the curve and no threat whatsoever to the top Android OS and iOS based phones) c) Cloud Computing (Azure came late to the market and is still ridden with lots of bugs and issues and is not a market leader either) d) Content (they are a nobody in the music, video, movie, gaming world) e) Database solutions ( they are completely ignoring the huge push towards NO-SQL solutions and again will find out too late what they have missed) f) Mess-ups in key technologies on the development side (I already mentioned, WPF/XAML, Silverlight, Web technologies,...) g)-xxx) the list goes on but i hope you get the point! have not harmed the company and its shareholders? Well maybe you should then climb out of your little self-loathing, arrogant shell and look at the share price performance vs most of their direct competitors then maybe you see that apparently not everyone appreciated their corporate strategy as much as you do!!! You are very fast at shooting down everyone else, I am sometimes too, but I can backup my statements with facts rather than continuously calling you a moron.
seriously, you are making yourself look dumber with every post: NO TRADING APP NEEDS boosts in displaying TEXT. Seriously, you are out of your mind and have no clue whatsoever if you clamore this to be of advantage to trading based applications. Ridiculous!!! So please tell us why most WinForm charting libraries that are even 5 years old are WAY FASTER than the fastest WPF libraries which are seemingly based on your favored vector based rendering engine that goes through the GPU? You have no fuxxing clue what you are talking about!!!