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I agree with Ars that the VisualStudio changes are bad, but is there any confirmation that the SDK change isn't temporary/won't have an official solution by the
by gecko 14y ago
I agree with Ars that the VisualStudio changes are bad, but is there any confirmation that the SDK change isn't temporary/won't have an official solution by the time of shipping? Microsoft has distributed the C++ compiler for years; it'd be very odd for them to do an about-face now. This reminds me off the uproar when Xcode 4 was suddenly a $5 purchase...except that it wasn't for users on the newer OS, when it actually shipped.
- randomfool 14y agoIf so this really sucks for build machines- don't want to have to get a VS license just for that.
- flomo 14y agoAn Ars commenter posted this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852363.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852363.as... I agree this is really shocking. Even if most Windows devs bought into Visual Studio Pro & MSDN, there was always the free option.