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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. Microsoft Obsoletes [Another] Developer Tool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Film at 11.

    Seriously, was it not expected at this point?