Twitter monetization advice: Be the next Microsoft, not AOL. Focus on developers.

Re:Twitter monetization advice: Be the next Microsoft, not A... by johnbender on Sunday April 19, 2009 @01:56PM (#569593)

I still don't see a justification for charging the at home devs for this. The benefits of a more vibrant development community around MS software FAR outweigh the peanuts they get from charging us that 300 dollars.

On the bright side they can still charge their corporate customers for the seats which is where all the VS revenue's come from anyway.

Running around screaming about "It's the best IDE evar!" doesn't justify charging independent devs for it. Provide the tools so that devs can build your ecosystem.

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Re:Twitter monetization advice: Be the next Microsoft, not A... by jlsonline on Monday April 27, 2009 @06:11PM (#582211)

FWIW they provide an almost completely functional Visual Studio Express edition for free (that is a relatively new thing) and have even started including things like JQuery. It's a pretty slow process but I think they have always listened to their devs.

Incidentally, I do think it's the best IDE out there but I'm not a MS fanboi, and have spent plenty of time in other IDEs and even vi :-)

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