Sometimes the anti-MS sentiment here is almost as silly as the gushiness of the MSDN blog post.
Given Windows8 sold upwards of 3million licenses within the first couple of days (and probably many more now), 100k downloads of a card game app seems pretty darn reasonable to me. This factor becomes even less surprising if the app is promoted in the Win8 app store, or if it is one of the few card game apps, etc. Also, this number is downloads, so maybe people grabbed it, checked it out and deleted it. I haven't looked into specifics. But given the size of the ecosystem, the number doesn't seem unreasonable.
To follow up on gushiness, as others have commented, this particular post was on MSDN which is a Microsoft property. Microsoft has a pretty decent infrastructure for developer support (and has had for a long while). A lot of people working within the Microsoft development ecosystem like the tools, the platform, etc. A person, employee or not, posting about his positive experiences is to be expected.
For myself, I'm eh on Win8. I see the "Metro" interface as an oversized task bar/start menu for what is a better/faster desktop experience. That said, I mainly use my Mac. The developer tools from Microsoft, on the other hand, I actually find are better overall than XCode, the android ecosystem, etc. For an IDE, VS is pretty good.
Given Windows8 sold upwards of 3million licenses within the first couple of days (and probably many more now), 100k downloads of a card game app seems pretty darn reasonable to me. This factor becomes even less surprising if the app is promoted in the Win8 app store, or if it is one of the few card game apps, etc. Also, this number is downloads, so maybe people grabbed it, checked it out and deleted it. I haven't looked into specifics. But given the size of the ecosystem, the number doesn't seem unreasonable.
To follow up on gushiness, as others have commented, this particular post was on MSDN which is a Microsoft property. Microsoft has a pretty decent infrastructure for developer support (and has had for a long while). A lot of people working within the Microsoft development ecosystem like the tools, the platform, etc. A person, employee or not, posting about his positive experiences is to be expected.
For myself, I'm eh on Win8. I see the "Metro" interface as an oversized task bar/start menu for what is a better/faster desktop experience. That said, I mainly use my Mac. The developer tools from Microsoft, on the other hand, I actually find are better overall than XCode, the android ecosystem, etc. For an IDE, VS is pretty good.