Microsoft .NET goes open source, cross-platform

jansdejager said:
Vs has been the de facto standard for every sort of programming, even console gaming, since nt. either ms is throwing clueless macolytes a lifesaver or its getting soft about expanding market share
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VS and .Net has been fading rapidly over the last decade. In Silicon Valley you have a higher chance of finding unicorns than finding one of the startups using .Net
 
JStrike said:
VS and .Net has been fading rapidly over the last decade. In Silicon Valley you have a higher chance of finding unicorns than finding one of the startups using .Net
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Sort of. .Net is a strange one and creeps in as being located in the oddest of places. To be honest the company who is probably the most concerned is Adobe.

What a string of activities by Microsoft point to is a company that is embracing being at the centre of an ecosystem where Microsoft continues "to create a family of devices and services for individuals and businesses that empower people around the globe at home, at work and on the go, for the activities they value most". For Microsoft it isn't about quick wins and it never has been, it is about banking on the continued - - remember this is the company that made its breakthrough by selling an operating system on the IBM-PC on volume rather than machine: showing more confidence that people would buy the device than anybody else at the time imagined.

Remember the idea of “a computer on every desk and in every home” was for many years the mantra of Microsoft and did they move mountains in the pursuit of that goal and accomplish it to a far greater degree than anybody imaged. Now they want to put a computer on every person and in every business and they want that computer to be a Microsoft computer. If you connect computing peripherals - running Android for example - or connect to servers running any one of a dozen operating systems (frequently hosted on a Hyper-V platform)

I finally got an Android device a few weeks back (thanks MyBB) and it is lovely - I use it all the time for Skype (Microsoft) and Onedrive (Microsoft)
I haven't played with Remote Desktop yet but the point is my Android tablet is a peripheral that happens to also be my phone. The swing towards MS for people's smartphone is happening and will continue to happen. You can completely avoid the Apple ecosystem or the Google ecosystem but not the Microsoft one and that is what they want.
 
Paul Hjul said:
Sort of. .Net is a strange one and creeps in as being located in the oddest of places. To be honest the company who is probably the most concerned is Adobe.

What a string of activities by Microsoft point to is a company that is embracing being at the centre of an ecosystem where Microsoft continues "to create a family of devices and services for individuals and businesses that empower people around the globe at home, at work and on the go, for the activities they value most". For Microsoft it isn't about quick wins and it never has been, it is about banking on the continued - - remember this is the company that made its breakthrough by selling an operating system on the IBM-PC on volume rather than machine: showing more confidence that people would buy the device than anybody else at the time imagined.

Remember the idea of “a computer on every desk and in every home” was for many years the mantra of Microsoft and did they move mountains in the pursuit of that goal and accomplish it to a far greater degree than anybody imaged. Now they want to put a computer on every person and in every business and they want that computer to be a Microsoft computer. If you connect computing peripherals - running Android for example - or connect to servers running any one of a dozen operating systems (frequently hosted on a Hyper-V platform)

I finally got an Android device a few weeks back (thanks MyBB) and it is lovely - I use it all the time for Skype (Microsoft) and Onedrive (Microsoft)
I haven't played with Remote Desktop yet but the point is my Android tablet is a peripheral that happens to also be my phone. The swing towards MS for people's smartphone is happening and will continue to happen. You can completely avoid the Apple ecosystem or the Google ecosystem but not the Microsoft one and that is what they want.
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Agreed that this is the correct move. Satya Nadella is correcting the mistakes of Steve Balmer.
I do not agree with you about being unable to avoid Microsoft. I used to be very heavily skewed towards Microsoft software (and helped write some of the Xamarin/Mono stack), but in the last few years, I haven't touched anything from them. Not out of a desire to avoid their products, but more so that they have just disappeared in tech circles (Although I suspect they still have a strong presence in Enterprise). They are a company I had kinda forgotten exists
 
JStrike said:
Agreed that this is the correct move. Satya Nadella is correcting the mistakes of Steve Balmer.
I do not agree with you about being unable to avoid Microsoft. I used to be very heavily skewed towards Microsoft software (and helped write some of the Xamarin/Mono stack), but in the last few years, I haven't touched anything from them. Not out of a desire to avoid their products, but more so that they have just disappeared in tech circles (Although I suspect they still have a strong presence in Enterprise). They are a company I had kinda forgotten exists
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In the Enterprise space they are massive..

and while you may not consciously have touched anything from MS for the last few years, but its a guarantee that something you have used has been Microsoft based, even if you didn't know it.
 
ToxicBunny said:
In the Enterprise space they are massive..

and while you may not consciously have touched anything from MS for the last few years, but its a guarantee that something you have used has been Microsoft based, even if you didn't know it.
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Quite possibly, but nothing that I am aware of
 
Arthur said:
As someone said, the new Microsoft doesn't really want to own the boats and ships (devices); they aim to be the ocean in which everything floats.
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This, this, this.... And this!
 
ToxicBunny said:
In the Enterprise space they are massive..

and while you may not consciously have touched anything from MS for the last few years, but its a guarantee that something you have used has been Microsoft based, even if you didn't know it.
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Azure... A badass, very few joe publics even realise is out there. Even Apple like Azure.
 
Petec said:
Azure... A badass, very few joe publics even realise is out there. Even Apple like Azure.
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I wish they'd open it up for students to play around and dev with it, but I can't complain I still have $100 in DigitalOcean credit
 
JStrike said:
VS and .Net has been fading rapidly over the last decade. In Silicon Valley you have a higher chance of finding unicorns than finding one of the startups using .Net
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Ok, so it's not Silicon valley, but StackOverflow runs on .NET.
 
martin said:
This probably means Silverlight will also become Linux compatible at some point in the future. Good news for those who currently have to implement workarounds to watch Netflix on a Linux box.
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No Silverlight is on it's way out, so doubt they will put any effort on getting that onto Linux.
 
I believe Kalahari.com (the site) also runs on .Net. Perhaps other parts of it as well?
 
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