[ale] OT: Windows 8 Open Source development crippled

[Jim Kinney]

take aim for foot, pull trigger, repeat.

We should dev a GCC gui-fied package that cribs up QT/WX code and sell it
for $199.

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Vernard Martin <vernard at venger.net> wrote:

> Or rather more crippled than normal. This message came across a
> distribution list where I work.
>
> For anyone with an eye towards development work on Windows 8, the only
> “free” to use version of Visual Studio Express will only make “metro”
> friendly touch style apps and web pages. Development for desktop will
> require Visual Studio Pro at about $500 a copy. But if you are a clever
> developer you may say to yourself, “Fine, I’ll just use the Windows SDK
> C++ compiler... stripped down but good enough!” Well, MS thought of that
> too and the compiler is being stripped from the Windows SDK. At the end
> of the day, this means that there will be less desktop freeware for
> Window 8 and most new freeware will likely use the Windows 7 SDK, so
> there’s really no point in Windows 8 for desktops. So, this means
> Windows 8 is going to be a lot like Vista, only not as good.
>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/no-cost-desktop-software-development-is-dead-on-windows-8/
>
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