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Windows Mobile Development No Longer Free

Posted by timothy on from the listen-to-your-inner-rms dept.

Jacco de Leeuw writes "Windows Mobile developers have enjoyed free development tools like the eMbedded Visual Tools and that in turn has helped popularize Windows Mobile devices and a number of free or cheap applications. But now the SDK for the upcoming Windows Mobile 5.0 has a number of 'technical (not political) dependencies' on Visual Studio 2005, which starts at $299. Is it time for an open source Windows Mobile toolchain?"

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  1. "Technical not political"? by iced_773 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And why is it that it depends heavily on VS in the first place? Now mobile developers will have to pay through the nose for yet another MS product. Coincidence? I don't think so.

  2. Sooo... by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How do you Windows users/developers like being nickel-and-dimed?

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