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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by CamperBob2 on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:41AM (#9463624)
Ballmer wasn't an idiot.

Sorry, but yes, the person who said this ( http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-steve-ballmer-thou... ) was, in fact, an idiot.

He should have had his walking papers from the board of directors by that Friday.

Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by Sammi on Thursday April 30, 2015 @04:01AM (#9463820)
I think that it's much more reasonable to assume that he was talking defensively, as he actually did see the enormous threat of ios. He sounds like a scared man there.

But both of us are just assuming.

Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday April 30, 2015 @04:44AM (#9463937)
I'm not sure what they're getting at with the "Microsoft is building its own hardware, just like Apple." jab. Microsoft has had a hardware division since 1982!
Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by sukilot on Friday May 01, 2015 @02:35AM (#9469835)
But no Windows computers before Surface.