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Microsoft has been opening up for a decade...its first open source project, WIX Tools, was released in April 2004. ASP.Net MVC source code was released five years ago. Even before that, the CLI was released as an open specification as far back as 2000. Hence Mono.
How about opening up something that really matters like the the Office formats?
Asked my first IE question there - got downvotes with "it's not an IE support page" comment
do you have a link to your question?
Does this mean Microsoft is terminating developer support for IE? All Stack Overflow can do is answer questions. They can't fix bugs in the product.
Does this mean Microsoft is terminating developer support for IE? All Stack Overflow can do is answer questions. They can't fix bugs in the product.
No, they are likely going to use it as a source for bugs to fix in IE.
Don't bother to report a bug to anything that doesn't offer tracking. It's pointless.
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Yeah, I agree. I think it's actually fantastic that they focus so narrowly on answerable questions. It's still a super useful resource, and a tight focus means it will probably be able to stay on track for a long long time. However, I wish there was a place as fantastically focused on good discussion.
What do you think about Quora?
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It's not just about discussion. It's a general stance positioning the perfect against the pretty good. Here's just one example: questions often get closed as duplicate after good answers start rolling in. Sometimes, the new answers are better than the old ones. The mods argue that the users should move their answers over to the old question. Or that they should improve the old answers. It's a lot of should, should, s…
This is by far the worst problem with Stack Overflow. The mods seem to leap at the chance to mark questions that are similar, but not identical, as duplicates.
