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Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8
benfrog writes "Microsoft has decided to restrict Visual Studio 11 Express, the free-to-use version of its integrated development environment, to producing only Metro-style applications. Those who would like to produce conventional desktop applications or command line -based applications are stuck with Visual Studio 2010 or buying the full version. Microsoft announced the Visual Studio 11 lineup last week."
They're not better, they just have all the swanky advertising.
Haven't you see the hot girls giving away free Microsoft stuff at conventions...Stallman just can't compete with that, even if you're into it.
Which you're not. Don't even try to kid us. You aren't.
Get Lost, Get Lost, Get Lost.
Enuff said. The desktop is the only saving grace for Microsoft, let alone Windows. Talk about killing the golden goose.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
I just received a chair in the mail.
but that's 99% lazy, lazy programmers using the built in MS-SQL (which will bite them hard in the ass in a few years when in high cost of maintaining SQL DBs running over TCP/IP vs el-cheapo access DBs on network shares becomes apparent).
...I can think of all sorts of arguments for not using MS SQL that you could adopt for valid reasons, but I would have never dreamed I would hear someone advocating shitty access dbs on network shares as a replacement for a proper db.
You sir, are a goon.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!