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The Longhorn Dream Reborn

Posted by timothy on from the longhorn-dream-is-enlarging-barton-springs dept.

gbjbaanb writes "Early this month, Microsoft dropped something of a bombshell on Windows developers: the new Windows 8 touch-friendly immersive style would use a developer platform not based on .NET. Cue howls of outrage from .NET developers everywhere, but here Ars Technica describes what's more likely to have been going on and why Microsoft is finally getting its act together for developers."

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  1. Re:So then, by airfoobar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Toss a few chairs and you'll get over it.

  2. Re:So then, by MightyMartian · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean that rumor I heard about Steve Ballmer turning tricks in Bellingham are false?

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  3. Re:So then, by c0lo · · Score: 3, Funny

    what happened to "developers developers developers" ?

    They moved into the "O-cloud-O cloud-O cloud"

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  4. Re:Standard modus operandi by Spad · · Score: 3, Funny

    The 2Gb Access Database limit is nature's way of telling you that you should never have used Access for anything in the first place.