Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Browser-Based Code Editor

Very convenient for hacking on the go when you are usually ng something like surface or iPad.

The Monaco project form Visual Studio is exciting. We (Codenvy) have tracked nearly 50 web-based editors that have emerged in the past 2 years. A few of them have transitioned into full businesses with venture backing. Most of them have remained side projects or experiments.

With Microsoft's project related to Monaco and their VP's statement in the TechCrunch article that this style of development is where the future is vectoring towards, this is the first major platform vendor that has indicated that they see these sorts of cloud environments as not only as supplemental to core development, but potentially displacements.

Of course, there are years of engineering ahead before cloud systems can offer true displacement, but some of the early adoption scenarios are getting well defined. We attempted to capture the market size and early adoption drivers of cloud browsers in this quora post.

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-market-size-of-cloud-IDEs-a...

Wow, I am blown away. It's worth watching their list of features video. http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-Online-Monaco/...

great overview at quora.com

are you estimating the market for such (Cloud-IDE) tools being currently $465M or did I misunderstood that - interesting when now the first key (legacy) development IDE providers (MS - VS) are moving towards that approach as well.