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posted by martyb on Thursday October 20 2016, @10:35PM   Printer-friendly
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?


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Friday October 21 2016, @02:06PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 21 2016, @02:06PM (#417248) Journal

    Troll is wrong.

    Linux on the desktop has already arrived and nobody noticed.

    For years now Amazon sells more Chromebooks than Windows laptops.

    PC sales of all kinds are on the decline year over year. That also means Microsoft OSes are on the decline.

    The whole nature of computing for most people has already changed. Tablets and phones. Microsoft failed completely and utterly at this. Didn't even have the vision to see it coming. Microsoft laughed at the iPhone. Microsoft screwed up its desktop OS and inflicted these changes on its users in order to prop up it's failing phone and tablet -- great move. Then begrudgingly made the desktop able to work like the last 30 years of desktop OSes that everyone knows how to use.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @03:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @03:50PM (#417292)

    Linux on the desktop has arrived! But only when you cherry-pick sales numbers from a single retailer and try to reframe things by bringing up phones and tablets.

    In the real world, any non-zealot admits that Linux on the desktop failed. Linus himself even acknowledged it recently.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday October 24 2016, @02:08PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 24 2016, @02:08PM (#418142) Journal

      The desktop is in decline. Tablets and phones are perfectly relevant.

      It's like saying that word processors will never be computerized typewriters. That is typewriters, without a CRT, but with an embedded computer and able to backspace and auto correct. The reality is that it isn't the same thing. Just like tablets and phones. The word processor came into the mainstream, and typewriters began to virtually disappear. It is a perfectly valid comparison to tablets and phones becoming the primary computing platform for millions of people -- and it is happening.

      Go ahead and not like it. But it is happening just the same.

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