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Authored by: hardmath on Friday, May 25 2012 @ 06:14 PM EDT |
This is a new spin on things IMHO. The idea has been that developers one tight
budgets (often students) could download "express" versions of MS
toolsets (VS for VB.Net or SQLServer Express, say), which would lack certain
"professional" features. But the available targets (Windows or
console executables, DLLs, etc.) would be essentially the same as the for-pay
versions of those tools.
Now the offer is that VS 11 Express will not create general desktop
applications, only touch interface "Metro" style apps.
I suspect it's as much about trying to squeeze new developers into a
"Metro" framework mindspace as it is about monetizing the tools.
Dinosaurs like me are not likely to jump at the chance.
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Authored by: Ed L. on Friday, May 25 2012 @ 06:34 PM EDT |
In what sense is charge-for-our-sdk-and-compilers anticompetitive? And it
certainly is a break from Microsoft's past. FOSS Folks may -- with
justification -- whine about Microsoft's anticompetitive behaviour vis-a-vis
OS/2. But few care to recall just how far IBM went out of its way to
shoot its own
puppy:
The poor support for existing hardware and software
wouldn't have been too bad if that fancy 32bit protected mode multitasking could
be used to bring in apps not possible in Windows and DOS, but IBM was firmly
committed to killing this too. Back then you couldn't walk 3 feet at a developer
tradeshow without a Microsoft rep handing you a free stack of disks with the
Windows SDK and a pin or sticker proclaiming how you wanted your next
application to be developed for Windows. Down at the IBM booth, assuming you
could get a guy who would do more then just blow hot air at you, you could buy
the OS/2 SDK for the low tradeshow price of just
$300.
Otherwise a would-be OS/2 dev would be out close to
$3k.
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- To clarify - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 25 2012 @ 07:21 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 27 2012 @ 07:32 PM EDT |
The useful editions of visual studio have never been free (people use VS without
addins? that alone is worth the price tag over express) and the only express
edition that even allowed commercial use was 2010. Oh, with severe restrictions
like no 64 bit compiler or MFC/ATL support.
It's discouraging that they're so determined to push metro as a desktop runtime,
but having to pay for VS is nothing new.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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