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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by yread on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:42AM (#14309035)
Microsoft Build is becoming an event where hell freezes over lately. VS on Mac, Linux on Windows, open source asp.net and .net, SQL Server on Linux
Re:Visual Studio for Mac by developer2 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:32AM (#14314612)
Microsoft is trying to mitigate the hemorrhage that is the mass exodus of its customers from Windows to competing operating systems. It's not about "real support" for Linux or Mac. It's a sad attempt to keep people tied to Microsoft products, by enticing you to use these tools even once you've abandoned Windows.

What they should be doing is fixing the critical issues people have with Windows; namely, Windows 10's (lack of) privacy settings, advertisements in Explorer, harassing people with taskbar notifications for using Chrome instead of Edge, and the utter shitstorm they allowed to take place with malware-levels of bullshit with forced and unattended upgrades to Windows 10. With the way in which Microsoft pushed out Windows 10, I can't understand why anyone is still using Windows except for gaming. That maneuver should have cost them so much more than it did. Microsoft has lost all credibility, and trust is unlikely to ever be regained.

tldr; Microsoft Windows' users have had enough of this crap, and are migrating elsewhere. Instead of fixing the issues people have with Windows that are causing them to abandon it, Microsoft is creeping into the competition's ecosystems in some desperate attempt to maintain a partial grasp on its users.

Re:Visual Studio for Mac by blowski on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:52AM (#14309149)
If Satan was forced to compete, he'd probably offer a wider range of options as well.
Re:Visual Studio for Mac by s73ver on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @12:11PM (#14309331)
It's not really VS on Mac, though. It's just a rebadged Xamarin Studio. I can't really call that amazing.
Re:Visual Studio for Mac by RajenK on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:29PM (#14309945)
Hi there, Rajen Kishna here, Product Manager on Visual Studio for Mac. If you haven't tried it out yet, I would definitely say check out the released version of Visual Studio for Mac. It has support for mobile apps with Xamarin, but adds so much more to build web apps and services with .NET Core and even games with Unity. We also announced preview support coming very soon for Docker and Azure Functions and are definitely planning on adding more over time.
Re:Visual Studio for Mac by dang on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @02:05PM (#14310232)
> Hi, Rajen Kishna here, Product Manager on Visual Studio for Mac

Hi, a minor procedural point (I'm a mod here): it's good to say this once in a thread, but repeating it after that breaks the feeling of normal conversation, so could you please not? Experience shows that users figure it out.

Re:Visual Studio for Mac by akoumis on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:04PM (#14312856)
I haven't seen his other comments yet so the heads up helped me understand the context of his comments better.
Re:Visual Studio for Mac by dang on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:07PM (#14318188)
Yes, there's a tradeoff with redundancy but overall it lowers the signal/noise ratio.