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As a developer working with Microsoft products I have a very mixed feeling about what the company is doing right now. The tools and products for developers and
by elliatab 14y ago
As a developer working with Microsoft products I have a very mixed feeling about what the company is doing right now.
The tools and products for developers and professionals are amazing. Visual Studio might be the most visible example but there are really tons of great tools and libraries (and many are actually open sourced).
The problem is that I cannot see any of this greatness translated into end-users killer-apps. LOB apps surely benefit from it and other ecosystems (OSX, iOS or Android) will not catch-up for a long time.
For me there are two Microsoft: one for the developers and headed by Scott Guthrie and the other for consumers. This last one does not have a clear vision and is just trying to catch up with Google and Apple.
- guilloche 14y agoI used to using visual studio and thought it was good. But after using emacs, I donot think it is good any more. and the libraries/APIs seems not well designed too now.
- elliatab 14y agoWhen talking about VS and libraries/APIs you really need to be more specific. VS lets you work with very different technologies from native C++ to .NET languages, including web stacks. The user experience may vary but if we are talking about the .NET world I think it is a very strong package. The only equivalent I can think of would be the Eclipse/Java combo.