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Tim Sweeney demonstrates severe lack of knowledge about current Microsoft technologies on social media

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Tim Sweeney demonstrated a severe lack of knowledge about current Microsoft technologies on social media after his unfounded criticism of the Universal Windows Platform was challenged by the company and other developers. He didn’t know much about Windows 10 or programming for the new operating system.

@TimSweeneyEpic as im sure you know, uwps are published to appx packages that can then be bootstrapped by an exe, just like msis/setup.exes

— Allan Lindqvist (@aL3891) March 4, 2016

@TimSweeneyEpic @bjorndori but they *do* allow win32 apps in the store. That what project centennial is all about.

— Allan Lindqvist (@aL3891) March 4, 2016

@TimSweeneyEpic they mentioned it in a blog on feb 25th https://t.co/LsQr1E9zXr, and they’ve talked about office and ph-shop using it

— Allan Lindqvist (@aL3891) March 4, 2016

@TimSweeneyEpic windows it self is built on exe files. That is not a reasonable risk. You are making an argument in bad faith imo

— Allan Lindqvist (@aL3891) March 4, 2016

These are just some of the examples where Tim Sweeney proves he has no idea what he’s talking about. In an interview with Polygon he even admitted he had no proof that Microsoft wanted to monopolize the market and he was just expressing his concerns. There’s a difference between expressing your concerns to further the industry and baseless fear mongering. What Sweeney did was fear mongering out of his ill-informed understanding. Maybe he should’ve bothered to be up to date on the latest news rather than blurting out whatever came to his mind and unnecessarily causing a controversy. He had to backtrack his comments and the discussion with Allan Lindqvist, a senior systems engineer, proves Sweeney has a very limited understanding of the Universal Windows Platform.

Source: WCCFtech

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