I don't know if anyone noticed or not, but Microsoft has a lot of presence in the desktop market. While MS wastes it's time/resources/marketing fighting against the superior incumbent linux, bsd, and solaris machines, we could be sneaking more desktop apps into linux, and more linux onto desktops... Despite slow growth in desktop sales, Windows and MS Office are still their bread-winners.
The IDE *is* the language. Yeah, it's a bit of a paradigm shift for people who spend all their time on a console-based OS, but Visual Programming is the most efficient and intuitive method of rapid application development. Using a text editor to design a GUI just doesn't make sense anymore.
It looks like linux development is slowly broadening to include this new methodology, which is very cool. It's that kind of thinking which will bring the much-needed apps to linux.
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I don't know if anyone noticed or not, but Microsoft has a lot of presence in the desktop market. While MS wastes it's time/resources/marketing fighting against the superior incumbent linux, bsd, and solaris machines, we could be sneaking more desktop apps into linux, and more linux onto desktops... Despite slow growth in desktop sales, Windows and MS Office are still their bread-winners.
I'll be showing up in redmond tomorrow with an uzi and anyone that has not specifically asked not to be slaughtered (by 3pm today) gets plugged.
The IDE *is* the language. Yeah, it's a bit of a paradigm shift for people who spend all their time on a console-based OS, but Visual Programming is the most efficient and intuitive method of rapid application development. Using a text editor to design a GUI just doesn't make sense anymore. It looks like linux development is slowly broadening to include this new methodology, which is very cool. It's that kind of thinking which will bring the much-needed apps to linux.