Slashdot Mirror
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."
Visual Studio is hardly the only development IDE on Windows. Yes, it is good, but you cannot really say that "free desktop software development dead in Windows 8" just because gasp, MS wants you to buy the new version.
I agree. Ars Technica used an inflammatory title to drive traffic to their site. I used to like Ars but it has adopted a tabloid journalism flavour lately so I don't read it anymore. For me, Ars is a damaged brand.
You are now about to be bombarded with people calling you an idiot just because Linux suits their narrow needs and they're quite happy to spend ages fucking about with it. I once listed five different applications I'd used in different places as examples of why people still use Windows and the moron said "why are you only talking about edge cases?"