Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial 148
jg21 writes "It is probably coincidental, but two responses to OpenSocial from well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community have each in their own way come out against Google's OpenSocial initiative, Dare Osabanjo because in his view OpenSocial while billed as a standardized widget platform for the Web, actually isn't. And Don Dodge because his claim is that fifty million Facebook developers "don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care.""
Big guns, eh? Bah. (Score:5, Funny)
What social networks are really about... (Score:5, Funny)
I agree. Who the fuck cares about APIs? It's not like people are joining Facebook just to add fifty million stupid applications to their profile.
Facebook Developers (Score:5, Funny)
Well respected? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Microsoft employees bashing something non-MS? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Facebook Developers (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What social networks are really about... (Score:4, Funny)
As we all know, when Facebook groups become big enough, they can move mountains...
Re:Microsoft employees bashing something non-MS? (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's the Trebuchaise.
Re:What social networks are really about... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Big guns, eh? Bah. (Score:5, Funny)
Hell, they don't really even know what a standard is.
Re:Well respected? (Score:5, Funny)
Where did you get "oxy" from?
Hang on - let's count em (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Big guns, eh? Bah. (Score:5, Funny)
Sure they do, that's that thing they keep changing every time they release a new version of Office.