Hi, my thoughts were I would engage an attorney when required if I needed to send a CND. I don’t think that I’ll have any issues getting the trademark registered. It’s a largely obsolete English word but there is nothing similar that’s already registered.
I’m waiting to get the trademark process started before I launch, so little commercial use thus far.
You have to show commercial use afaiui, in order to get the trademark in the first place. You have to submit evidence as such as part of the application.
Yeah, from my experience, it's a few thousand dollars, so if you have cash to burn, it's not too bad, but you probably don't need it until you have a stable cash influx
The comments on this post really make me wonder how many people have actually written a UWP app or tried using the API?
I have experience across a heap of stacks... Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Android, Win32/WinForms/WPF, Web, Xamarin Forms etc... I love UWP. It was pretty ordinary in the first few releases but it has matured well, has great documentation and the UI framework is developed in the open on GitHub.
I am by no means suggesting you could write something like Autocad or Photoshop in UWP; perhaps you could with a rethink of the UI. But UWP is an excellent choice for probably 70-90% of desktop applications, including enterprise LOB that are just forms over data or integrating with an online service of some kind.
If you're drawing your own conclusions based on what you read from others writing (who are likely doing the same) - actually try the framework, you might be pleasantly surprised.
Finally, I think Thurrott has lost the plot. He has been waging this war against UWP for many years now - to the point of a crusade - I just ignore any statement he makes on this.
actually try the framework, you might be pleasantly surprised
Enough people have used UWP apps and been repulsed enough by the experience to not want to inflict the same upon the users of apps they themselves write.
But UWP is an excellent choice for probably 70-90% of desktop applications
No. It's a massive failure even for something as simple as the Windows calculator, which is one of the apps that MS rewrote so you can actually compare the Win32 and UWP versions.
I concur, It has been a very easy and fast platform for me, and it seems like not a lot of developers have caught on to the fact that UWP is great for the end consumer, its snappy and can be updated without having to load the application or an update application first. But hey, developers don't like it so I guess thats forced Microsoft's hand.
It it? I've never developed windows GUI apps, so can't comment on a technical level. But from a consumer perspective all the UWP apps I've tried, including those shipped by Microsoft with Windows 10, are awful. I think Windows 10 Mail could be the worst GUI application ever written. I used Windows 10 for most of the last year, and it got to the point where the Windows Store became my primary filter for apps - ie. if an app was available there, I'd cross it off my list of candidates.
> I think Windows 10 Mail could be the worst GUI application ever written
What makes you say this? I'm a heavy desktop user and find Windows 10 Mail to be the fastest and simplest way to interact with mail. It works perfectly with attachments, and calendar invitations, etc
It's a year or so since I used it, so I don't remember all the details. But off the top of my head: crashy, terrible IMAP implementation, mails often stuck in outbox, very incomplete keyboard shortcuts, links opened in Edge rather than default browser. I'm sure there was as lot more, but anyway I found it unusable.
Yes, .NET/C#/VB on a daily basis for a long time. JEE for a good period as well. I constantly keep an eye on jobs and in my local area I would say 85% fall into .NET or Java, with the majority being .NET. Other standouts include PHP, Python, and a little of C/C++, even VB classic. I've seen maybe 3-4 Ruby jobs advertised in the past 4 years, never anything for the Silicon Valley trendy. But then again, I live in a very small town (Hobart).
I had a P30 back in the day. I paid a lot for it, maybe 4k AUD, but it was my main machine from my late teens to very early twenties. The thing was stupidly heavy, used to carry it to uni on a 6km walk to the bus stop... something like 5kg with the power pack or maybe even 5.5kg....
Must be why I'm still happy lugging around a MacBook Pro now when mostly everyone I know has moved on to ultrabook style machines.
I remember making the mistake of playing NFS:Underground on it and it lasted 20 minutes on my bed before it overheated and turned itself off.
I had a debate about this the other day with a friend. I am firmly of the belief the quality is bordering on poor and that if this was a decade ago, the Apple fanboys would be all over Microsoft for the same performance - remember the taunts about Windows performance and crashing from the Switch campaign?
I'm sick of constant random iOS reboots, out of date OpenGL, poor/reduced quality apps (Photos I'm looking at you), the growing monolithic nature of iTunes and the fact I feel like I'm running Windows ME all over again.
I wish they'd stop spending so much time on marketing new features -- who cares, really -- and spend a few years making stuff great.
Is that common? I have and use a 5s for years now and I have a spontanious reboot every 6 months maybe. And I am a very active user. Same for my wife (same phone). I have a new Samsung as well; it gets stuck every 2 days enough to have to reboot it.
It hasn't been that common since the latest updates but particularly early iOS9 was very frustrating.
I see it most commonly when using Safari or AirPlaying anything, but have also had it happen randomly when using Settings, presumably because Springboard.app has died.
It's a shame how much Apple don't care about gaming. I'm actually selling my Mac Pro (2013) because the graphics performance is so lack lustre and I have no hope of running Oculus Rift.
I used to work at Dick Smith at the time they still carried the suffix Electronics, from 2003 - 2007. I loved it there, grew up going there and playing with the gadgets and electronics. They're a shell of their former selves now, just a cheap consumer electronics store that tried to compete with other Australian retailers selling house branded and lower-end branded products.
They could probably significantly revitalise by moving back to tools & parts, I doubt many former customers would be loyal now though given how they were treated at the point all the PRZ range was dumped (parts, resistors, capacitors & semiconductors).
Opposite to everyone here - it's a big, fat no from me. I'm taking the 10 days to spend time with my family and finish some books. I'm always on the feeds and seeing what's happening, but it is, in my opinion, very important to down the tools and have a break. It's the same reason I don't code on vacation.
I did a SAML implementation with Ping Identity for a "large kids brand" and it was horrible. Getting permissions and roles out of LDAP, passed through SAML and translating them to our application was so brutal it was laughable.
Guess what happened. 12 months later they dropped everything except the SAML login support and switched back to using our permissions instead.
I’m waiting to get the trademark process started before I launch, so little commercial use thus far.