Microsoft going soft
Published 29 April 2006
by random pete.
Last updated 14 June 2006.
I just noticed that Visual Web Developer and the other Express tools
are now permanently free, yet another bizarre move by Mr. Gates. Is he really going soft in his old age? Next thing they'll be giving Windows away free and calling round to mow your lawn...I wholly commend this move; I got into programming as a hobbyist playing around on a ZX Spectrum. The BASIC programming language was included as a part of the operating system (well... it was the operating system) and the (hefty) instruction manual that came with it was mostly about how to program BASIC. Access to these developer tools has been further and further removed from the user with recent versions of Windows, which I've always felt was a shame. Thumbs up to this news!
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