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Re:Microsoft's New Edge Web Browser – How to Create Edge Ext... by piyush_soni on Monday May 18, 2015 @01:36PM (#9565740)
Then you're not following Microsoft enough. They are gradually making all the development tools cross-platform, just to bank on the dev knowledge of the users of Windows, Linux and Mac. Browser add-ons is another area they can get benefitted from by the help of other platform developers.
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Re:Microsoft's New Edge Web Browser – How to Create Edge Ext... by bad_user on Monday May 18, 2015 @01:55PM (#9565867)
What development tools?
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Re:Microsoft's New Edge Web Browser – How to Create Edge Ext... by piyush_soni on Monday May 18, 2015 @07:37PM (#9567438)
They have made .Net & CoreCLR open source (including the compiler, runtime and libraries), enabled Visual Studio to do more than developing just Windows applications (they now allow developing Android/iOS apps as well) and are trying to make developing for other platforms even easier with VS 2015.

Not only that, they just released a cross platform Code Editor which works on Windows, Linux and Mac, called 'Visual Studio Code'. That and more was announced in the Build Conference held recently.

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Re:Microsoft's New Edge Web Browser – How to Create Edge Ext... by bad_user on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @07:20AM (#9569192)
Visual Studio Code is just a re-branded Atom editor [1] bundled with atom plugins, such as OmniSharp [2]. And while Atom is impressive, that's not Microsoft's doing, plus they took an open-source project and released something which isn't open-source and named that in a way to make people believe that Visual Studio is now all of a sudden cross-platform. Well, I think I'll pass for now.

[1] https://atom.io/

[2] http://www.omnisharp.net/

[3] https://code.visualstudio.com/License

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Re:Microsoft's New Edge Web Browser – How to Create Edge Ext... by piyush_soni on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @09:16AM (#9569766)
Rebranding or not, doesn't matter (A lot of mainstream projects out there start like that). The point is that they are pushing to be a company that supports a cross platform development, so I'm surprised that you'd even bring that point. Also, CoreCLR and .Net are their own, and no, unlike what you think, they aren't going anywhere so soon.
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