dohboy

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by dohboy 9y ago
Same strategy as always. Rebrand current products and call it new. This is not Visual Studio as known from Windows but Xamarin Studio rebranded. Title should be Microsoft release Xamarin update...
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by dohboy 11y ago
Perhaps quality? Having developers who know the environment they are developing for instead of a lot of one-size-fits-all apps. You can do it if you're the only supplier of a given service but as a customer you will not get my money in
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by dohboy 11y ago
Because Windows is loosing as a dev platform for web and mobile. Enterprise developers are in control as enterprise already did their lock-in with the Office365 platform and surrounding technologies. Don't worry they close down again w
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by dohboy 11y ago
Why is this being discussed like Ubuntu is the only Linux edition available? You seriously think CentOS, Arch or *BSD users will jump ship because of this?
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by dohboy 11y ago
You clearly don't work with Microsoft on a daily basis in a enterprise setup... I'll fill you in. The new lock-in is Office 365 with Intune/SCCM and Azure. We are in the extinct phase of having better management options in In
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by dohboy 11y ago
Just because you didn't knew does not makes it any less click bait.
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by dohboy 11y ago
Indeed. When you get out of your small "coder" box and into the enterprise layer where the negotiations and implementations are happening you will know nothing has changed in the way Microsoft is doing business. Their TAM and KAM
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by dohboy 11y ago
wow the head up my own butt is high in this one... :O
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by dohboy 11y ago
Yes, hadn't thought of that actually. But it was mostly an example. I already have all the Windows versions I want available through work.
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by dohboy 11y ago
In the Microsoft store for my country the price is 2099 DKK equal to 307.41 USD. Yes everything is expensive here... :/
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by dohboy 11y ago
You need to re-imagine. I'm used to paying $0 for the OS X stuff needed to do development. This includes the Enterprise Professional Plus Home edition of both OS X and Xcode. In the lifetime of my Mac I have upgraded the OS 2 times and