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