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But I thought one of the bullet points of Win8 was that it was more developer friendly. When you say developer friendly, what do you mean by that? Seems to me

by talmand 13y ago

But I thought one of the bullet points of Win8 was that it was more developer friendly. When you say developer friendly, what do you mean by that? Seems to me you can develop more or less whatever you want in numerous different ways. Are you talking about developing on the core? As for open sourcing a previous version, there's always something like ReactOS, http://www.reactos.org/ http://www.reactos.org/.

Touche 13y ago
Microsoft's idea of developer friendliness is always aimed at high-level. Windows is developer friendly as long as you use their tools/languages. Developers want to choose their own tools, so they should make that easier / more integrated.
- talmand 13y ago
  I'm not a Windows developer, but I'm fairly certain there are options of tools/languages for Windows development that are not offered directly from Microsoft. Again, are we talking about developing applications to run on Windows or developing on the core?
  - Touche 13y ago
    Low-level applications/libraries. Things we take for granted on other OSes like alternative shells, alternative terminal emulators, language bindings for Win32 gui.
    - talmand 13y ago
      Ok, I understand now.
jstelly 13y ago
Using Windows 8 as a windows development platform is inferior to windows 7 if you target legacy users (windows XP) because Windows 8 does not support installing SDKs like DirectX9. You can still compile for those targets but you can't run some of the most useful debug stuff anymore.