Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

Post by tn13 » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 2:02 AM UTC

brudgers wrote: post #317

krylon wrote: post #92

Ever 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…

By design, Nadella is getting credit by design for 'overnight changes' many years in the making. Windows 10 reflects the strategic decisions embodied in Vista. Ballmer owned enough stock that along with Gates' backing Microsoft could produce a largely incompatible new version of the Windows OS and Wall Street could like it or lump it. Gates and Ballmer have been divesting Microsoft shares and the new company is behol…

Post by aceperry » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 2:15 AM UTC

M8 wrote: post #209

aceperry wrote: post #143

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Funny thing is most MS devs seem to think that asp.net is on its way out.

There is no real alternative to ASP.NET.

Post by Retra » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 2:25 AM UTC

mreiland wrote: post #384

dragonwriter wrote: post #342

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> Is he wrong about the GPL? Yes, even if he was talking about the GPL when he said "open source software", he would be wrong. (And if he meant the GPL, he would be wrong in using the general term "open source software" in referring to it, even if his statements were accurate for the GPL.) > It actually does what he is talking about by design. No it doesn't. He says "if you use any open-source software, you have to m…

He directly referenced Linux which is famously under GPLv2. You can argue with this wording if you like, but his observation is spot on and it's obvious to those are not unduly biased that he was speaking about the GPL and the licenses that were similar to it.

Post by ascendantlogic » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 2:33 AM UTC

mreiland wrote: post #384

dragonwriter wrote: post #342

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is he wrong about the GPL? Yes, even if he was talking about the GPL when he said "open source software", he would be wrong. (And if he meant the GPL, he would be wrong in using the general term "open source software" in referring to it, even if his statements were accurate for the GPL.) > It actually does what he is talking about by design. No it doesn't. He says "if you use any open-source software, you have to m…

He directly referenced Linux which is famously under GPLv2. You can argue with this wording if you like, but his observation is spot on and it's obvious to those are not unduly biased that he was speaking about the GPL and the licenses that were similar to it.

Post by jebblue » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 2:42 AM UTC

petecox wrote: post #391

Thanks M$ :) This is a good move if they're hoping to entice Eclipse users on *nix to migrate from the JVM ecosystem to CLR. Deploying Windows programs on FreeBSD is one thing but if they want to grow their developer base, they need to target programmers who don't run VS on Windows.