Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by cm2187 on Thursday April 30, 2015 @03:26PM (#9467097)

I don't need more than a few seconds to find that the contextual menu at the bottom of the screen was absurd. Being frustrated with it means I would try to avoid using it, go around that problem. The solution Microsoft advocated for desktop: use keyboard shortcuts!

I do not dispute that keyboard shortcuts are faster than any mouse based UI. And I am sure that you became more proficient having to go around the Win 8 hassles using the keyboard. However if the UI can only be practical if a user learns by heart all sorts of commands and shortcuts, then it is a massive failure, it defeats the very purpose of a UI, particularly a UI targeted at consumers.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by brudgers on Thursday April 30, 2015 @06:55PM (#9468153)

Consumers are not the primary target for Windows. Never has been. Microsoft is primarily a B2B company. That's why they have long support cycles. That's why they make Excel. That's why they make Visual Studio...and languages and frameworks and SQL Server and Windows Server and Exchange etc etc.

Picking tools based on first impressions, is in my opinion, a suboptimal strategy. YMMV.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by cm2187 on Friday May 01, 2015 @04:20AM (#9470113)

They are getting cornered into a corporate environment. But they used to dominate the consumer market, and windows 8 was precisely designed to reconquer this lost market share.

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