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posted by janrinok on Thursday April 30 2015, @09:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the head-in-the-cloud dept.

MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - a Slim Cross Platform Code Editor

Microsoft appears like they may actually be starting to get serious about cross platform support. Their new slim code editor for developing cloud applications supports both OS X and Linux, as well as Windows.

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run on OS X, Linux and Windows. The application is still officially in preview, but you can now download it here (if this link isn’t live yet, give it a few more minutes and then try again).

This marks the first time that Microsoft offers developers a true cross-platform code editor. The full Visual Studio is still Windows-only, but today’s announcement shows the company’s commitment to supporting other platforms.

From the Techcrunch article:

Today’s announcement will surely come as a surprise to many. It does, however, fit in well with the direction the company’s developer group has been on for quite a while now, be that the open sourcing of .NET Core (and taking that platform cross-platform) or the launch of the free Visual Studio Community edition.

Another Publicity Stunt from MSFT: "Visual Studio Code"

Roy Schestowitz at TechRights reports "Visual Studio Code": Not News, Not Free, Not Open Source

Another publicity stunt from Microsoft, this time going under the name "Visual Studio Code", which is basically proprietary lock-in

Despite an openwashing campaign and an effort to deceive the public (as chronicled here before), Visual Studio is (and will remain) proprietary. There is currently yet another PR blitz from Microsoft, which at the moment is trying to openwash it and pretend that it's "news" (it's not, it goes back to last year).

Sadly, some FOSS proponents have already fallen for it and Phoronix is doing marketing for Microsoft. This is not really news and it's not even a surprise. It's just some publicity stunt which got Microsoft boosters and Microsoft-friendly sites on board.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Friday May 01 2015, @09:38AM

    by Marand (1081) on Friday May 01 2015, @09:38AM (#177416) Journal

    I seem to have tempted fate and lived to tell the tale. It must be my wit and charm that saved me. :p

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2015, @07:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2015, @07:26PM (#177571)

    Indeed, some aren't so lucky. What kills me are the "Microdick sucks no matter what! LOLZ" comments coming from otherwise intelligent folks. I've seen more than one commenter here make insightful, intelligent, articulate comments about something unrelated to Microsoft, but when that dreaded name pops up suddenly they revert to their childhood days and begin spewing forth gibberish and vitriol that paints a completely different picture of themselves. I guess that's a given when the bulk of your membership comes from the other site, but I thought this place was above such inanity.

    And their only defense? "Duh, Microsucks was teh evil back in the 90s when I was being conceived in the back of a Corolla, my mommy told me so!" They have no concept of change or progression, or else they can't admit that companies can and do change direction when they change leadership.

    Personally? I think Microsoft is doing it for the money, not for the good will it might one day earn them. They are a corporation, so they are supposed to be beholden to the almighty dollar. I'd just like to see these narrow minded spittle-slingers start calling out Apple and Google for their evil shenanigans as well. At this point, if you put Google's evil deeds for the past five years on the balance against Microsoft's over the same period, you'd see Google sinking fast.