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I wish they'd buy: * Xamarin and polish the debugging, VS integration and Mono in general (maybe replace a lot of it with MS' .NET implementation? I can dream)
by taspeotis 13y ago
I wish they'd buy:
* Xamarin and polish the debugging, VS integration and Mono in general (maybe replace a lot of it with MS' .NET implementation? I can dream)
* MvvmCross and polish it and put it into the .NET BCL
* JetBrains (or just ReSharper) and give it a once over (performance- and code analysis-wise) and ship it with VS.
* Maybe Digia for Qt to replace MFC (this one's kind of selfish since Qt is used in places Microsoft probably doesn't care for - maybe they could sponsor the Windows side).
> Cheaper than innovating weak product.
Aside from MFC I think Microsoft has fairly solid solutions to a lot of problems (Azure, Active Directory, Exchange Server, Visual Studio, Office, .NET).
- boyter 13y agoAgreed. I wish they would would buy Xamarin and make it easy to build C# MVC applications and deploy on Linux/BSD. Give me that with entity framework to MySQL/Postgresql and I am sold. Will convert over to using it for everything. Add in ReSharper and it has the potential to be the most productive environment on any platform.
- goofygrin 13y agoCan't sell windows server licenses if you let people run on Linux. Xamarins price is way too high and I bet apple would block the apps built with it if msft bought them (and they'd likely sue for reverse engineering).
- taspeotis 13y ago> apple would block the apps built with it Apple went there [1] and failed [2]. [1] http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flas... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_and_Adobe_Flash_controversy#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_and_Adobe_Flash_controver...