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Microsoft's New Attempt To Dominate Robotics

Posted by timothy on from the more-robots-in-more-places dept.

An anonymous reader writes "IEEE Spectrum reports that Microsoft's Robotics Group is announcing new world domination plans — at least for the robotics world. The company is making its Robotics Developer Studio (RDS), which includes Microsoft's CCR and DSS runtime toolkit, available to anyone for free. Why make it a freebie? Because the company wants to expand its RDS base and get a grip on the robotics development space, hoping big things will come out of it."

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  1. A Roboticist's Perspective by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Microsoft, Go Fuck Yourself!

    More seriously, we do everything on Linux and occasionally VxWorks or QNX. MSWindows is far too crippled and painful

  2. Re:API! by pitdingo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Great. So where can i download the version for Ubuntu? Anyone with half a brain would continue to stay far away from anything from Microsoft, you always end up paying dearly in the end.