Microsoft "Code7" Contest - Write a native Windows app for 7. Get prize. - Developers

Microsoft has created a contest called Code7 in which you can get prizes (not a lot) for creating a native program for Windows that utilizes a new feature in Windows 7. For more info you can check it out here: [url]https://www.code7contest.com/[/url] Prizes include: $17,777 PDC09 Ticket.

HMm... interesting name "Windows 7 Developer Contest", How expected... Why can't they just have something easier, such as a massive LAN party, and the winner gets $17,777 rather than a coding contest.

[QUOTE=nubcakez;16047830]"Windows 7 Developer Contest", How expected... Why can't they just have a LAN party and whoever wins gets $17,777 instead??[/QUOTE] Uh what?

Sounds like a smart ploy. I am guessing they really mean, "Write an application that only works in Windows 7." I could be wrong, but hey it's smart on their part.

[QUOTE=Funcoot;16047967]Sounds like a smart ploy. I am guessing they really mean, "Write an application that only works in Windows 7." I could be wrong, but hey it's smart on their part.[/QUOTE] Fall for the .net lock-in. :downs: Just like cigarette companies, get 'em hooked while they're young.

[QUOTE=Panda X;16047914]Uh what?[/QUOTE] Fixed.

[QUOTE=Panda X;16047798]a new feature in Windows 7.[/QUOTE] heh.

[QUOTE=Funcoot;16047967]Sounds like a smart ploy. I am guessing they really mean, "Write an application that only works in Windows 7." I could be wrong, but hey it's smart on their part.[/QUOTE] That utilizes a new feature in Win7. I assume it would be Win7 only.

[QUOTE=nubcakez;16047830]HMm... interesting name "Windows 7 Developer Contest", How expected... Why can't they just have something easier, such as a massive LAN party, and the winner gets $17,777 rather than a coding contest.[/QUOTE] They do this so their programmers work on Windows and the community works on a program that uses a feature of Windows 7. They can then show everyone the Windows 7 application and hook people in and saying "Look what our cool operating system can do" and say "This was created by a regular old windows user". It is a double plot to showcase and show that windows is user friendly. All without them lifting a finger.

[QUOTE=Squad;16048547]They do this so their programmers work on Windows and the community works on a program that uses a feature of Windows 7. They can then show everyone the Windows 7 application and hook people in and saying "Look what our cool operating system can do" and say "This was created by a regular old windows user". It is a double plot to showcase and show that windows is user friendly. All without them lifting a finger.[/QUOTE] So? We might get money. Who cares.

[QUOTE=jmazouri;16049140]So? We might get money. Who cares.[/QUOTE] Google will give you $4500 just for participating in Google Summer of Code. [url]http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html[/url]

Quick someone name me a feature so I can slap it onto something

[QUOTE=DementNeo;16049681]Quick someone name me a feature so I can slap it onto something[/QUOTE] superbar you *must* slap a superbar system onto an MDI app

cool, I've always wanted to see the pussy cat dolls live

they exclude people from Cuba,Iran, Sudan, North Korea and.. Quebec?

I think $77,777 would be a more appropriate prize.

An invitation to visit the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA, to meet members of the Windows 7 development team [b](winner is responsible for all travel related costs)[/b] Cheap bastards.

Guyze this app doesn't have to be Windows 7 only. You could use the progress bar on the taskbar, or make tabs in a web browser show up in the superbar previews, and maybe even have a refresh button under each thumb or something like that.

This is like the "use Internet Explorer and win $10k" thing, our free systems are so shit we have to pay people to use them.

[QUOTE=ZomBuster;16053529]they exclude people from Cuba,Iran, Sudan, North Korea and.. Quebec?[/QUOTE] Laws. Almost every single contest is this way.

[QUOTE=ZomBuster;16053529]they exclude people from Cuba,Iran, Sudan, North Korea and.. Quebec?[/QUOTE] Damn Canadian terrorists

So you only get paid $17,777 while they will make money off your app for the next few years?

Jesus Christ, most of the people in this thread are stupid fanboys. "HURRR M$ is having contest!! Cheap a$$holes trying to make money off our ideaz"

[QUOTE=high6;16056313]So you only get paid $17,777 while they will make money off your app for the next few years?[/QUOTE] They include the app you make? [QUOTE=Kwal;16056467]Jesus Christ, most of the people in this thread are stupid fanboys. "HURRR M$ is having contest!! Cheap a$$holes trying to make money off our ideaz"[/QUOTE] That's the opposite of fanboys.

[QUOTE=Kwal;16056467]Jesus Christ, most of the people in this thread are stupid fanboys. "HURRR M$ is having contest!! Cheap a$$holes trying to make money off our ideaz"[/QUOTE] What are we fanboys for, then? I don't even think the lively arguments we get about style count as fanboyism.

[QUOTE=Kwal;16056467]Jesus Christ, most of the people in this thread are stupid fanboys. "HURRR M$ is having contest!! Cheap a$$holes trying to make money off our ideaz"[/QUOTE] Fanboy of what? I don't love or hate microsoft...

I'll make a program that opens IE and takes you to Meatspin. Will I get sued?

Somebody in this thread needs to learn what fanboy actually means.

Then it overheats the processor. [editline]05:32PM[/editline] BROKE MAH AUToMERGE!

[QUOTE=ZomBuster;16053529]they exclude people from Cuba,Iran, Sudan, North Korea and.. Quebec?[/QUOTE] Embargoes. Not sure about Quebec/Canada. Garry could probably enter Botch if he implemented Dx11.