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Is it that smart? Being developer friendly sounds like just plain common-sense, not some genius breakthrough. The question should be more why has it taken them
by jayflux 11y ago
Is it that smart?
Being developer friendly sounds like just plain common-sense, not some genius breakthrough.
The question should be more why has it taken them so long to get to this point.
- pjc50 11y agoThey always tried to be Microsoft developer friendly, and I think sort of assumed that UNIX was going to go away when they won. But it's now clear that UNIX has won for web services, and the web has beaten old-style client-server. And the Windows remote admin/cloud admin/mass deployment features appear to have lost as well.
- sveme 11y agoMaybe. It is definitely the common-sense thing to do today, five years ago, it would have been smart. From a pre-Nadella perspective, you could have called it revolutionary, but now we're used to Microsoft participating in OSS, so it's much less so.
- pritambaral 11y agoWasn't Ballmer's "developers, developers, developers" chant more than five years ago?