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<blockquote data-quote="craige1" data-source="post: 971880" data-attributes="member: 66464"><p>I think this is a great idea. Windows 8 has gone through its trial by fire and has come out doing better then windows 7 did. Its doing well on the consumer side and enterprises are picking up windows 8 much faster then most other windows versions due to the massive growth in demand of byod, the cloud, multi format support and ecosystem support all which windows 8 adds massive support for.</p><p> </p><p>The biggest "issues" for the MP team to consider is the Microsoft blue updates due on most of the ms products soonish. The blue updates are a ms company wide project that has been in longer development then windows 8 was and ms have recruited vast teams to work on it. Even tho the ms products have tight integration with each other now, the blue updates will bring a host of changes to their products, including gui, features, and capability changes all orientated to make the entire ms product line have even tighter integration. An example of this is currently windows 8 apps and windows phone 8 apps take about 10 minutes of work to port between both systems. After the blue update, the apps will become the "same" and work on both platforms natively. Consider that the blue update goes to all ms products, and then think about the new XBOX system due out this year. Any app written for windows 8 would work straight on any tv connected to an xbox, and any htpc, and be able to use tablets that hook up the the tv.</p><p> </p><p>MS have been talking about their 3 screens and the cloud goal for about 5 years now. Windows 8, skydrive, outlook.com(Hotmail), windows phone 8, and xbox are all the biggest growing in their fields, most are the biggest in usage as well and MS is combining them all to be "one" platform. They're only months away from completing this. The MP team should be looking at the advantages this brings to being able to support so many form factors in one go, as well as the treats of leaving it alone. Threats include projects like XBMC getting the same idea and jumping on first, windows 8 and xbox left to dominate the HTPC market with their native support, 3rd party windows apps that fill the roll of plugins like moving pictures or tv series, 3rd party "ports" open source mp code onto a windows app (if the last one is a "treat" or not would be up to debate but it would a best split the development of mediaportal).</p><p> </p><p>I recommend MP 2 have a windows 8 client as part of its initial release. The client side of mp would be "fairly" easy to port to a windows 8 app due to them both using the same ms technologies. Most of the heavy lifting in mp2 happens server side with the client acting only as a gui. That would fit perfectly as a windows 8 app.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="craige1, post: 971880, member: 66464"] I think this is a great idea. Windows 8 has gone through its trial by fire and has come out doing better then windows 7 did. Its doing well on the consumer side and enterprises are picking up windows 8 much faster then most other windows versions due to the massive growth in demand of byod, the cloud, multi format support and ecosystem support all which windows 8 adds massive support for. The biggest "issues" for the MP team to consider is the Microsoft blue updates due on most of the ms products soonish. The blue updates are a ms company wide project that has been in longer development then windows 8 was and ms have recruited vast teams to work on it. Even tho the ms products have tight integration with each other now, the blue updates will bring a host of changes to their products, including gui, features, and capability changes all orientated to make the entire ms product line have even tighter integration. An example of this is currently windows 8 apps and windows phone 8 apps take about 10 minutes of work to port between both systems. After the blue update, the apps will become the "same" and work on both platforms natively. Consider that the blue update goes to all ms products, and then think about the new XBOX system due out this year. Any app written for windows 8 would work straight on any tv connected to an xbox, and any htpc, and be able to use tablets that hook up the the tv. MS have been talking about their 3 screens and the cloud goal for about 5 years now. Windows 8, skydrive, outlook.com(Hotmail), windows phone 8, and xbox are all the biggest growing in their fields, most are the biggest in usage as well and MS is combining them all to be "one" platform. They're only months away from completing this. The MP team should be looking at the advantages this brings to being able to support so many form factors in one go, as well as the treats of leaving it alone. Threats include projects like XBMC getting the same idea and jumping on first, windows 8 and xbox left to dominate the HTPC market with their native support, 3rd party windows apps that fill the roll of plugins like moving pictures or tv series, 3rd party "ports" open source mp code onto a windows app (if the last one is a "treat" or not would be up to debate but it would a best split the development of mediaportal). I recommend MP 2 have a windows 8 client as part of its initial release. The client side of mp would be "fairly" easy to port to a windows 8 app due to them both using the same ms technologies. Most of the heavy lifting in mp2 happens server side with the client acting only as a gui. That would fit perfectly as a windows 8 app. [/QUOTE]
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