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> Microsoft’s investments in cloud and mobile technologies will enable “Minecraft” players to benefit from richer and faster worlds, more powerful development t
by Mithaldu 12y ago
> Microsoft’s investments in cloud and mobile technologies will enable “Minecraft” players to benefit from richer and faster worlds, more powerful development tools, and more opportunities to connect across the “Minecraft” community.
Sounds like they intend to use it as a killer app for microsoft phones.
- giancarlostoro 12y agoSounds like they're either going to port it to C# or add Java development to Visual Studio? Though I doubt the latter is the case... Given the history of Java and Microsoft...
- michaelx386 12y agoYou never know with Microsoft these days. They've recently started releasing source code so anything's possible. I do think they'll port it though.
- scrollaway 12y agoWhat it sounds like is that they're going to start properly endorsing the modding community, something Mojang failed to realize is absolutely critical to minecraft.
- Narishma 12y agoOr just use the C++ version. Only the PC version is written in Java.
- 3g4sg4 12y agoFrom first hand experience, there is quite a bit of active Java development at Microsoft. And no, it's not done in Visual Studio.
- orn 12y agoYes, the Eclipse TFS plugin is pretty nice
- giancarlostoro 12y agoInteresting, I never really gave it much thought. I always wanted a Java plugin for Visual Studio personally. Oh well. I guess IntelliJ is good enough. I guess it makes sense, if I remember correctly some of their download managers use Java themselves, or used to.
- nly 12y agoI can just see it running in a Metro tile.
- funkyy 12y agoAs an owner of Windows Phone I cant see how this would work out for them. Most of Windows Phones are rather smallish and Windows Surface is totally wrong product with their OS and limitations.