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Microsoft Announces Visual Studio For Mac (venturebeat.com)
On the sidelines of major announcements such as Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation, and Google joining the .NET Foundation, at its Connect(); 2016 developer conference, Microsoft also announced that it bringing Visual Studio for rival platform Mac. The company also announced a preview of the next version of SQL Server, and a preview of Azure App Service support for containers. From a Venture Beat report:"We want to help developers achieve more and capitalize on the industry's shift toward cloud-first and mobile-first experiences using the tools and platforms of their choice," Microsoft Cloud and enterprise executive vice president Scott Guthrie said in a statement. "By collaborating with the community to provide open, flexible, and intelligent tools and cloud services, we're helping every developer deliver unprecedented levels of innovation." The fact that Microsoft is bringing its IDE to macOS would have arguably been the biggest news of the day, had the company not leaked the information itself earlier this week. Still, a preview of Visual Studio for Mac is now available, letting developers write cloud, mobile, and macOS apps on Apple's desktop operating system using .NET and C#. It's a big deal, given that Microsoft once made a point of locking in developers by only offering its tools on Windows. This has changed over time, with a big highlight in April 2015 when Microsoft launched Visual Studio Code, its cross-platform code editor, for Windows, Mac, and Linux.More info on Microsoft releasing SQL Server Preview for Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
I was all set to change over to using Microsoft cloud based technologies, but was completely hung up over the fact that VS wasn't available for the Mac. Thank you Microsoft!
/sarcasm
Translation: "I don't like Apple so I am comparing them to the British."
Not a dupe. Microsoft accidentally published a blog post earlier this week. That's what the old story is based on. But hours later, the company had pulled the blog post :)
Microsoft used to have compilers for other platforms. They stopped supporting them when they tried to unify everyone on Windows back in the 80s and 90s.
Microsoft's revenue is still driven by Office and Windows.
Why would you support other platforms with dev tools? It discourages people from writing for Windows to make it too easy to write to the Macintosh. In context, Microsoft has also made it undesirable to have Windows 10 in at least its consumer iteration due to the spyware and the confused interface. So on the one hand, you're driving the users off your platform, and on the other hand, you're facilitating moving the software they depend on to another platform. This seriously does not make sense from a profit generating perspective.
The only way I can make sense of this is that they don't see owning a platform, its dev tools and the primary application software on that platform to be logical for them because they don't think that desktop computing will last. It'll be supplanted by mobile, which they failed to own the platform thereof. Therefore, they want to shove their dev tools and applications in every space they can.
I don't see this as the likely end game, though. I really don't see desktop computing going away in the near term.
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Windows is a relatively small portion of Microsoft's revenue now. They see huge potential in the cloud (and that is Nadella's specialty, what he did before becoming CEO), so that is the point of all that they are doing. They've been trying to draw users into their cloud, and will do it with many different enticements.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Note that this is not a port of Microsoft's Visual Studio to the Mac. All they did was buy Xamarin Studio a few months back and slap their nameplate on it. They are completely different products with different codebases, and look to remain that way.
From a technical standpoint, there's not really much reason to be exited about this, unless you were already a Xamarin fan, and want to see it better-supported.
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What about the one where if you follow an external link or reply to a post it takes you to the top of the page when you come back, rather than the point you jumped off from?
Which spacktard thought that was a good idea?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."