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Microsoft is an irrational actor: they will sink billions of dollars into VS without regard for direct return in order to secure Windows as a platform. Using th
by ibdknox 12y ago
Microsoft is an irrational actor: they will sink billions of dollars into VS without regard for direct return in order to secure Windows as a platform. Using them as an example is useless. Moreover, VS is "purchased" almost exclusively as part of the entire Microsoft stack. When I was there a tiny, tiny fraction of revenue came from anyone actually just buying VS.
- dubcanada 12y agoOkay then sublime text. Hundreds of thousands of people have paid for that.
- ibdknox 12y agoOut of curiosity, do you have real numbers there? I'd be quite surprised if it was really hundreds of thousands.
- dubcanada 12y agoWhy? It's probably one of the most popular editors for PHP/HTML/CSS/Javascript/Ruby/Python. According to https://sublime.wbond.net/stats https://sublime.wbond.net/stats there are roughly 2.5M sublime text users. If even 10% of them paid for it, that would be 250,000. Assuming 10% is a little high, let's do 1% would would be 25,000. Even if those numbers are wrong (which they may be I have no idea how he gets those numbers, and if everyone is using Package Control) there can very easily be hundreds of thousands of paid licenses.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoI've heard rumors that VS is a $1b/year business, which is definitely nothing to sneeze at. How does Eve compare to something like Autodesk's design script?