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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. Re:Summary is Ridiculous Bullshit. by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think you sort of missed my point. COM, ActiveX and .NET as examples of the insane, overbloated, byzantine, crufty, heinous APIs that we can expect, and VisualStudio and SQL Server management tools as examples of the lame, bloated, convoluted, script-free, REPEATABILITY-free, non-portable (even between like systems) developer/management tools we can expect. In other words, kool-aid lock-in at its finest.

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