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from the how-did-they-model-the-removal? dept.
Microsoft has decided to drop the UML (Unified Modeling Language) designer tools from Visual Studio 15, reports Paul Krill at IT World. MS sales and support teams confirmed that few customers were actually using the feature.
"Removing a feature is always a hard decision, but we want to ensure that our resources are invested in features that deliver the most customer value," said Microsoft's Jean-Marc Prieur, senior program manager for Visual Studio.
I've almost never had occasion to use UML professionally other than a few hand drawn designs on scrap paper that were thrown away. I did have a coworker who had a tool that generated UML from code that was sometimes helpful when he explained his work in review sessions. In school UML appeared to be a nightmare that was used for modelling everything but software, yet academics talked about UML one day becoming executable and replacing code.
Do you use UML? Are you going to miss this feature in Visual Studio?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday October 21 2016, @07:59AM
Except back then Microsoft kept improving their operating system. Today Microsoft is making it worse.
Linux couldn't match the speed of Microsoft improvements, simply for lack of resources. However no Microsoft is actively working on alienating their users.
However the big winner is likely not Linux, but Apple. I've never before seen so many Apple notebooks as these days. And I'm sure that's not because all people suddenly discovered their preferences for Apple's design.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.