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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
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Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#112Seems like it has lots of potential. The product/download site should be at http://code.visualstudio.com when it goes live later today (it's currently showing a login page).
Just an update - that URL is live now. I just downloaded Code for Linux.
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#113Ever since Nadella took over at Microsoft, such news items are becoming more and more frequent. Ten years ago, my first reaction at such a headline would have been to check my calendar if it's April 1st. Microsoft has come a long way from the company that everybody loved to hate. IMHO, they still have a long way ahead of them, but it's nice to see they seem to be serious about it. With Ballmer at the helm, I had the…
Those products were under development in Ballmer's time but it seems Satya took the credits.
Perhaps he was involved, if not leading many of the developments while Ballmer was running the show?
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#114Downloaded & running on OS X.
Super impressed with its performance: it opens up & scrolls smoothly through a ~40M text file just fine. Memory usage is quite high though, but that's expected with an Electron-based app.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://account.live.com/resetpassword.aspx doesnt seem to require my password. I was able to select "I know my password, but can't log in" then chose "I don't have any of these" at which point I was given a form to fill out to have a CS rep contact me. Give it a try, it might give you access to your account again.
It's what I did at the time, and I did it again now, but it doesn't work. I can change password as many times as I want, but the account is still blocked for no reason.
So you didn't get to the big contact form? Did you select the same things I did? I just tried it again on another account, and got the same page as before.
Try with https://account.live.com/acsr it's the page it eventually sends me to for the recovery.
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#116Cross platform developers tools by Microsoft! Great news! MS has some of the best developer tools out there. In my opinion, the only downside has been the dependency on the Windows platform. As a developer, I feel much more comfortable in a Unix environment. This move was unthinkable a decade ago. I'm very glad to see MS moving in this direction. Just because of this announcement I want to start playing with TypeScri…
This move was very thinkable a decade ago. Even two decades. In fact, a good example from 1995: From Wikipedia: The strategy and phrase "embrace, extend and extinguish", was first introduced in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial when the vice president of Intel, Steven McGeady, testified[8] that Microsoft vice president Paul Maritz used the phrase in a 1995 meeting with Intel to describe Microsoft's strat…
Even when Microsoft 'Embraced and Extended' Java, it was only on the Windows platform. It was not cross-platform. The whole point of that methodology wasn't to make sure that everyone was using Microsoft-flavoured Java, but to make sure that everyone was using Microsoft-flavoured Java on the Microsoft Windows platform.
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#117Great. I'm a confirmed UNIX geek and I'll be the first to say MS has always excelled at developer tools, and I'd be happy to be able to use them on Linux. (BSD is probably a pipe dream, but this is a decent start.)
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#119Wow I'm so exited about this because if this catches on it will be my last reason stopping me from migrating to linux!
I couldn't find any info about it, but anybody knows if it will support importing Asp.Net solutions from VS 2013?
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#120Ever since Nadella took over at Microsoft, such news items are becoming more and more frequent. Ten years ago, my first reaction at such a headline would have been to check my calendar if it's April 1st. Microsoft has come a long way from the company that everybody loved to hate. IMHO, they still have a long way ahead of them, but it's nice to see they seem to be serious about it. With Ballmer at the helm, I had the…
Those products were under development in Ballmer's time but it seems Satya took the credits.
They may have been under development during Ballmer's time, but it's hard to believe that they would've seen the light of day under Ballmer's leadership. And if Ballmer released any open sourced products, I get the feeling that there would be major strings attached. And it would have a switch and bait sort of feel to it. Kind of like Oracle with Java and other technologies from Sun.
The fact is, Nadella has made open source a lot more palatable from Microsoft.