Just as a side note, Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone and Visual Studio Express Beta for Windows 8 are free. :)
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:03 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Windows 8 Consumer preview On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:35 PM, David Burela <[email protected]> wrote: > The Windows 8 consumer preview was released today. You can download it > from here. > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download > There is a lot of buzz on twitter about it today (mostly critiquing > the new start menu UI). > > Thoughts? > Me, I'm excited to start getting in there and playing with WinRT > development. Hopefully now we'll start seeing more frameworks on NuGet > like Caliburn.Micro. > And I'm looking forward to the app marketplace. It will finally be > worthwhile creating desktop applications. Looked at the Apple and Android app markets? And the prices? And the comments if you dare pitch your price over $20? Admittedly, they are (mostly) for phone and pads, but even OSX products on there are cheap. (for instance, the Mac equivalent of Visual Studio, Xcode is $5. (however there's a license fee if you want to sell on Apples marketplace, $99) - is Microsoft going to match this any time soon??) What are the rules for publishing on MS App store? I'm not really impressed by Apple's. -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
