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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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