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Consequently, it is not reasonable to expect us to make sound business or technical decisions on behalf of the customers, or to resolve conflicting requirements supplied by different end users, or to set priorities for the many requirements that might be collected.

We have finally reached the state where if no project champion can be found to see that the right system is built, we cancel the project.

The consequence of not explicitly discussing these quality tradeoffs is a surprise upon delivery, when the customer finds that his implicit quality attribute requirements have not been achieved

The mesh is the foundation for a model where customers will ultimately license applications to their mesh, as opposed to an instantiation of Windows, Mac or a mobile account or a web site.

applications will be seamlessly installed and run from their mesh

one instantiation of a mesh object is as a local (shared, aka Live) folder on a PC. This same mesh object might be instantiated as a slideshow on a web site, and as preview and upload UX on a mobile device with a built-in camera.

WPF, in conjunction with the .NET Framework add-in model, allows you to address a wide variety of scenarios that require host applications to display UIs from add-ins.

Installer: Axum is an incubation project from Microsoft’s Parallel Computing Platform that aims to validate a safe and productive parallel programming model for the .NET framework. It’s a language that builds upon the architecture of the web and the principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability and developer productivity. Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects. Programmer's Guide: Use this simple and easy to follow programmer's guide to learn how to create safe, scalable, and responsive applications with the Axum language. Language Specification: A detailed specification of the Axum language.

too many ways to develop for Symbian devices: native code, WRT (web run-time) widgets, Java, browser-apps, etc.

5-9 clicks just to add a calendar item.

disjointed software updating -- which requires a Windows PC in older Nokia devices -- that leaves many North American users without fixes to serious issues for all but the most popular of handsets.

Helicon Ape is a unique module that emulates Apache execution environment on Microsoft IIS. It literally implements Apache configuration model (like .htaccess and httpd.conf files) and all most demanded Apache modules in a single IIS add-on, not only making IIS compatible with Apache, but also extending it’s functionality

function ZParenizor2(value) { var that = new Parenizor(value); that.toString = function () { if (this.getValue()) { return this.uber('toString'); } return "-0-" }; return that; }

Again, we augment Function. We make an instance of the parent class and use it as the new prototype. We also correct the constructor field, and we add the uber method to the prototype as well.

This adds a public method to the Function.prototype, so all functions get it by Class Augmentation. It takes a name and a function, and adds them to a function's prototype object.