Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio

Re:Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio by kace91 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:18AM (#21463379)

I can see them stopping the sale of windows, but not really using an online OS. I think they've just given up on the OS war and will try to get users to subscribe to their walled environment (office, azure, onenote, etc).

They're already doing that on mobile, they stopped fighting android and are now trying to be there in the form of apps and services for both android and ios.

Personally I think it makes sense: An OS is becoming more and more a layer to access the web. Most people use just a web browser and a couple other apps. It makes sense for their focus to be not in that layer, but in being the app/web that the user searches for.

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Re:Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:58AM (#21463779)

> I think they've just given up on the OS war

That's an odd way of putting "have been winning so hard for so long that they probably can't even lose now if they tried".

...unless of course you mean the server OS wars, in which case that statement is a lot less wrong.

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Re:Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio by hgjbhujxgjbv on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @12:27PM (#21464733)

Also on cloud level, azure is so much better than amazon (google is outclassed by both). Microsoft is not as loud as it was but still there is no replacement. If they manage to put windows desktop to the cloud, there is not much left for the others.

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