{"id":783,"date":"2014-02-13T16:07:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=783"},"modified":"2014-02-13T16:07:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:07:21","slug":"windows-to-support-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Windows to Support Android Apps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Jo Foley asks if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/would-and-should-microsoft-enable-android-apps-on-windows-7000026266\/#ftag=RSS14dc6a9\">Microsoft could or should enable Android apps on Windows<\/a>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d think it would be more to the point to support standard HTML5 \/ Javascript apps. as first class citizens in Windows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s just as good a way to pick up a lot of developers.<\/li>\n<li>ChromeOS and FirefoxOS developers can port their apps. easily. Not as big as Android, but a growing segment.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft already DO officially support Javascript and libraries like jQuery in their development tools so it doesn&#8217;t require either a) telling developers to use non-M$ tools, or b) sending a message that they&#8217;re abandoning C# for Java.<\/li>\n<li>They can claim to be supporting a neutral standard rather than capitulating to a reality determined by a more successful rival.<\/li>\n<li>They, in practice, <em>will<\/em> be supporting a neutral standard which helps to undermine rather than further Google&#8217;s dominance.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d rather write a dedicated Windows OWL app. in CoffeeScript than Java. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Jo Foley asks if Microsoft could or should enable Android apps on Windows. I&#8217;d think it would be more to the point to support standard HTML5 \/ Javascript apps. as first class citizens in Windows. It&#8217;s just as good a way to pick up a lot of developers. ChromeOS and FirefoxOS developers can port [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205,223,505],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-html5","tag-javascript","tag-windows-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}