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+ Freelancer devs will be 'encouraged' to develop for Win 8, an argument can be made this will positively impact Win 8 sells, albeit it will be a difficult argu

+ Freelancer devs will be 'encouraged' to develop for Win 8, an argument can be made this will positively impact Win 8 sells, albeit it will be a difficult argument - Open source development on Windows will take a hit - Freelancers will either stick with older and less effective tools, or will choose to abandon Desktop - Users will tend to get less new software for their Windows 7 +/- Will not affect big corporations, e.g. gamemakers, who use the professional version - This will provide no additional motivation to bulk of the users (e.g. corporate, gamers) to switch to Windows 8 - This will further 'encourage' piracy of VS11

InclinedPlane 14y ago
Freelancer devs will spend the money on the full version of the tools instead of just using the free version. You have to be a pretty small potatoes freelancer to not be able to afford visual studio in some incarnation. See also: graphic artists and photoshop.
- gurkendoktor 14y ago
  I am a freelancer and I will stick to VC++ Express 2010. It means that everyone who ever touches the codebase for whatever reason can just download stuff and hit compile. Ordering something as cheap as US$500 can still be a hassle in a big company. Also, I only got into MSVC because of open-source/hobbyist dev in the first place.
- coffeeaddicted 14y ago
  It's not always about beeing able to afford something or not. I don't _want_ to support a business model that makes it harder for beginners. So yeah, when I have no choice due to project reasons I'll be forced to buy one obviously, but I don't like it and I will try even harder to get away from working on projects where I'm forced to do this in the future.
exim 14y ago
Actually, for freelancers it is more accessible and less risk to use illegal copies than for companies. Mostly, freelancers are producing sources for the concrete client, they aren't selling/shipping the binaries directly, so no one cares whether they used Notepad++ or Visual Studio.

InclinedPlane 14y ago

Freelancer devs will spend the money on the full version of the tools instead of just using the free version. You have to be a pretty small potatoes freelancer to not be able to afford visual studio in some incarnation. See also: graphic artists and photoshop.

gurkendoktor 14y ago
I am a freelancer and I will stick to VC++ Express 2010. It means that everyone who ever touches the codebase for whatever reason can just download stuff and hit compile. Ordering something as cheap as US$500 can still be a hassle in a big company. Also, I only got into MSVC because of open-source/hobbyist dev in the first place.
coffeeaddicted 14y ago
It's not always about beeing able to afford something or not. I don't _want_ to support a business model that makes it harder for beginners. So yeah, when I have no choice due to project reasons I'll be forced to buy one obviously, but I don't like it and I will try even harder to get away from working on projects where I'm forced to do this in the future.

exim 14y ago

Actually, for freelancers it is more accessible and less risk to use illegal copies than for companies. Mostly, freelancers are producing sources for the concrete client, they aren't selling/shipping the binaries directly, so no one cares whether they used Notepad++ or Visual Studio.