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The reason why MS charge for VS is to avoid squashing other Win toolchains | 393 comments | Create New Account
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To clarify
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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The reason why MS charge for VS is to avoid squashing other Win toolchains
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
for profit move.

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