I understand that Microsoft’s new WorldWide Telescope is an impressive piece of software.
However, Nick Bradbury has highlighted the horrendous installation procedure, which apparently involves up to 12 steps. Nick has this to say: -
Those of us who believe that desktop software is still relevant in a
browser-based world should be up in arms about how hard it is to
install software (on Windows, at least - it’s easier on the Mac).
Surely, though, it’s not Windows that’s the problem. The issue here is the dependency on .NET. Software deployment increasingly uses the Internet rather than physical media, yet .NET is entirely inappropriate in such cases.
Microsoft’s focus on .NET will be at their own expense, with Apple and Linux being the chief beneficiaries, along (I hope) with CodeGear - makers of the best Win32 developer tools.
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1 .NET is NOT to blame! | Arno# - The cutting edge of developer waffle // May 22, 2008 at 06:37
[...] I have been following the World Wide Telescope project with interest ever since Robert Scoble made a bit of an arse of himself over the subject. Since I was really impressed with the ease of install and the beauty of the product, I gushed in near fanboy-style about it when it went into beta release (I didn’t woop; so it wasn’t real fanboy stuff ;)). It was thus a bit of a shock to see that Mike Dillamore was casting the install in a bad light. [...]