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Re:Sunsetting Atom by dkarl on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @11:23AM (#31668724)
They embrace, extend, and extinguish products they don't make money on, so that people are forced to use products that they do make money on.
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Re:Sunsetting Atom by IncRnd on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @11:57AM (#31669292)
Microsoft doesn't make money from VS Code. Atom was retired due to a lack of activity with the project. I've never even seen anyone use Atom, since the time it was released 8 years ago.
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Re:Sunsetting Atom by dkarl on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:22PM (#31669706)
Hence the parent comment:

> We should be counting down the days till they sunset VS Code to focus on VS Code "Pro".

I don't think it would serve their interests, so I'm not worried about it, but who knows? This cynicism is directed towards Microsoft because they've earned it.

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Re:Sunsetting Atom by HideousKojima on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:51PM (#31672231)
Had two coworkers at my last job use it when they needed to edit some of our legacy PHP stuff (we were mostly a .NET shop) but even they switched to VS Code eventually because the writing was on the wall for support.
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Re:Sunsetting Atom by wiseowise on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:03PM (#31669391)
> Microsoft doesn't make money from VS Code.

They harvest an astonishing amount of data from it.

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