It's too much an internal product for them to give up on, IMO. It's as likely that MS would stop IE development. And that's free.
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Michael Minutillo < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm using VS2010 Premium and VS2012 Premium but those licenses come from > my workplace and I'm not convinced that I actually need any of the Premium > features. While it's true that the Express editions of VS don't allow > extensions I'm pretty sure you won't get those extensions for SharpDevelop > either. I did go through a period of wishing MS would give away the > equivalent of VS Professional for free but then I used some of those free > IDEs. By charging for their product it keeps Microsoft invested in making > VS the best IDE out there and I wouldn't change that for anything. > > Having said all of that I find my development style is becoming less and > less "Integrated" anyway as I tend to rely on command line and linqpad > spiking more and more. I suspect I could do with turning a huge swath of VS > functionality off. > > Michael M. Minutillo > Indiscriminate Information Sponge > http://codermike.com > > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Katherine Moss <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> I wonder. And no one flipped a lid when I said that I’m going to keep >> VS running as a dream spark license till I can buy it, so yeah. **** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *mike smith >> *Sent:* Monday, May 06, 2013 10:24 PM >> *To:* ozDotNet >> *Subject:* Re: Visual studio and SharpDevelop: who uses which on this >> list and why?**** >> >> ** ** >> >> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:44 AM, David Burstin <[email protected]> >> wrote:**** >> >> >> On 04/05/2013 11:25 AM, "Tristan Reeves" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > "full featured" meaning, um, not full featured. Or at least not if you >> > consider having any plugin work with VS a "feature". LOL. Ah >> > Microsoft, gotta love 'em.**** >> >> <rant> >> Yeah. Gotta love that they provide an excellent development environment >> at a fair price and then provide a free version that also gives a great >> development experience. Or did you want the free version to be exactly the >> same as the paid version?**** >> >> This whole freetard sense of entitlement gives me the sh*ts. >> </rant>**** >> >> You get compared with the competition. So, we're looking at Android >> and Apple. Android's is open and free, Apple's xcode is free. Hard for >> Microsoft to compete with that, unless they give VS away too, and look at >> making money via appstore revenues. THat appears to be where Apple and >> Android are going. Compared to this, are Microsoft really making much out >> of VS revenue? >> >> **** >> >> ** ** >> >> -- >> 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**** >> > > -- 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
