yiwang110

this ^^^^

and where are the protesters when last year Google fired an engineer who wrote a memo questioning women in tech?

I bet those who signed think FaLunDaFa is a legitimate religion.

LOL - typical MS software.

"The componentization work we've done means that the smallest install is one-tenth the size of Visual Studio 2015, making it far more likely to succeed" - Is VS going to be a UWP in the future? An installer is so 1999

No one is asking for a 50GB ISO. ISO is another way of saying "a single file". If you could provide a single ZIP file with SHA or MD5 hash we are happy too. Look at Xcode - the main bundle is around 3GB and all the SDKs, simulators, and documents are available as in-app downloads. Or you can look at Android Studio, or Eclipse. The base software package is relative small and there are options to download plugins/components.

"And so we fear that offering an ISO will just creating more disappointment." - well, no, what we want is not a "ISO" file, but a single file can be downloaded easily. Look at Xcode please, that's how IDE update should be done. You don't need to innovate, just do exactly what Xcode does.

"an ISO image is incomplete, often outdated, and potentially insecure" is simply not true. If we use the --layout option to download the package for offline installation, the packages can also be "incomplete, often outdated, and potentially insecure" after a while.Worse yet, because it's just a folder, people can add/remove file from the offline installation folder.

easy - how about making cordova, android sdks, etc as a downloadable component after the main Visual Studio is installed?

"Due to licensing complexity of today's installer" - LOL

If there is licensing complexity in making an ISO file, just make a ZIP file of the whole thing.