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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by foobarbazetc on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:04AM (#17228406)
How did they treat Windows Phone developers?

How did they treat Nokia employees?

Mhmmm.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by Const-me on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:18AM (#17228562)
> How did they treat Windows Phone developers?

I was one of them, and Microsoft treated me very well.

Windows Phone was an amazing platform. I’ve also developed for iOS a lot. Visual studio + expression blend was way ahead of apple’s xCode. Every single piece was much better: language, libraries, compiler, debugger, emulator, UI designer.

The platform is now discontinued so I no longer develop for WP. Meanwhile, most of the skills I’ve obtained working on WP7-8 apps apply to other XAML-based platforms, i.e. WPF, WinRT, and UWP. Fortunately for me, Windows is not going from desktops any time soon.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by wvenable on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:17AM (#17228553)
I'm pretty sure that wasn't the plan.
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