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Authored by: Ed L. on Friday, May 25 2012 @ 09:51 PM EDT |
Thanks. I was thinking of "anticompetitive" in terms of competing with OSX or
Linux, and hadn't considered the "open-source-apps-on-windows" angle, although
Peter Bright did. I somehow doubt whether Microsoft did as well. I suspect, as
does Peter, that Microsoft wishes to encourage Metro development because "We
gots more apps!!!" is a huge marketing bullet in the smartphone racket, and of
course the Windows Holistic App Store (Whap Store) can take a cut off a copy of
any app sold.
I actually don't expect this new
"charge-for-windows-desktop-sdk" policy to last much longer than it takes
Redmond to realise its net effect will be to train just that many more
developers in the beauty and benefits of cross-platform toolkits such as Mono
and Qt.
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- To clarify - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 25 2012 @ 10:03 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 27 2012 @ 07:36 PM EDT |
What's left of them anyway.
But yeah, the dev tools team loses bucketloads of money - this certainly isn't a
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