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Everybody is talking about lack of support for Windows XP. Seems a little premature, but I've no doubt that XP market share will decrease over time. Nobody is
by to3m 15y ago
Everybody is talking about lack of support for Windows XP. Seems a little premature, but I've no doubt that XP market share will decrease over time.
Nobody is talking about lack of keyboard macros. And yet, keyboards will be the primary programmer input device for a while yet.
So it sounds like MS have done their research on this one ;)
- acqq 15y agoYes, I'm really afraid that if the dumbing-down trend continues I'll be able to spend even less time in their new IDE. Visual Studio 6 (released 1998) has keyboard macros, as well as every version that followed, until now, when VS 11 from year 2012 doesn't? I've read somewhere that they "measured" that too few developers use macros. I guess they use metrics which you have to accept to be sent to Microsoft, and that the very same people who use macros simply do not want to have the IDE sending metrics over Internet at the times they don't control. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics Disclaimer: I do use macros, that's the first thing I add whenever I install Visual Studio. It seems that unless something changes, I won't be able to use them on VS 11.