Windows: The next killer application on the internet (1994) [pdf]

Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by blibble on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:32PM (#29618049)

> The information and software has been free for 15 years, we need to be careful to embrace the current technologies and community before we attempt to reshape it.

this all seems very familiar (IE, media players, and now Edge/WSL/VSCode)

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by solarkraft on Sunday December 19, 2021 @06:18PM (#29619582)

Embrace ...

Extend ...

It's quite obvious where they're doing it. VSCode doesn't support some Microsoft extensions if you don't use the official builds (which are proprietary, contain telemetry and nagware) and doesn't have the official extension store.

Take the software that's open and run. They haven't changed. They WILL try to fuck you over.

The people running to Gitlab were overreacting when they did, but may eventually be proven right too. Microsoft has shown it hasn't really abandoned its tendency to back-stab its users and itself.

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by urthor on Sunday December 19, 2021 @08:59PM (#29620778)

I do find the reverse EEE where I directly integrate LSP into Vim in my terminal extremely ironic.

Thank you Microsoft. I will not touch your appalling software, whilst happily enjoying a paradigm shift in Haskell dev workflows.

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