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

Post by deegles » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 6:07 PM UTC

marshray wrote: post #55

at-fates-hands wrote: post #50

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I'm wondering if a lot of moving their products to the cloud is to limit or try to stop pirating of their software. Adobe has been successful thus far with their new Creative Cloud platform.

Disclaimer: Not speaking in any official PR capacity here. Just sharing my personal opinions as a guy who has been in a bunch of cross-team meetings. I've been working as a developer in Redmond in "Server & Tools", now called "Server & Cloud", for the better part of a year now. I know for a fact there are teams that work to address piracy, but I personally haven't seen it as a driving force in specific goals. Without…

Post by fekberg » Fri, Nov 15, 2013, 12:27 AM UTC

filipedeschamps wrote: post #60

fekberg wrote: post #53

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> Even now Windows don't have basic feature like.. Hyper-V? Powershell? Search has been in Windows since forever.

Do you know that Powershell is something they had to make to have something ti compete with native Shell, right? This isn't a native feature for Windows and they have to monkey patch it. If you have used anyother OS, you will find out that Windows is fundamentally broken.