“A lot of people use Windows as their development environment, but we are also seeing a lot of people on Linux and Mac,” S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, Microsoft’s corporate VP of its developer division, told me earlier this week. “Instead of making them go to Windows, we want to meet them where they are.” Developers on these platforms are also often perfectly happy with using a regular code editor like Sublime Text instead of a full IDE like Visual Studio.
This is great news. MS seems to be shifting quite a bit. I’m really looking forward to the changes that are coming under CEO Nadella.
WTF? Didn’t they used to use edge to help force IE 8 and above out of compatibility mode or some such nonsense? I thought the idea was to get away from ill feelings of IE and so they still use a term that is referenced back to IE? Color me confused.
I personally don’t care too much about Edge or anything else. I think the idea that MS seems to be changing directions from “YOU MUST USE WINDOWS OR ELSE!” to “sure, use what you want as long as you’re using our software and services”, is pretty neat.
Their code snippet from the promo video has a line that says ["Edge"]. My first thought is “I’ve seen that before”.
I can’t think of anywhere that I’ve specifically used "Edge" other than in the meta tags, but I’m sure that it’s going to cause headaches somewhere.
For the part I’m talking about, skip to 0:45.
I am curious what the drawing stuff is all about though… it reminds me of their Courier concept from 2009.
