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OK, I'll be considering using this for LibreOffice development.

Microsoft finally got their mojo back? They are getting amazing.

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I'm on this team, and wrote the post. I'd love to hear how this works out for you.

And yes, it's all mojo all the time around here these days. :)

I'll have to dust off my Windows laptop - good on you guys :-) Even if we are competing against your Office suite!

Haha, there is a certain irony to this comment for me. Microsoft office is one of the few Microsoft technologies I find I can't do without. That said I hope one day LibreOffice will mean I no longer have to rely on MS Office.

Whats the mentality here? "If Linux is just an app you run on Windows, we can become relevant again to all those people"?

There are a lot of people in the world that do cross platform development so we're improving our tooling story for them. Well, I hope we are. It's also important to us to have a good IoT development story, and any thing that can run Linux will run Linux.

You DO know who you work for, right?

No matter what good you believe you're doing, it's just in the end going to be used to extinguish competition.

If Microsoft is a competitor to Apple, its doing a good thing IMO.

I'm not so sure about that. I think Microsoft have realised finally that competition is good, and actually you can make a lot of money out of services. If you extinguish competition, then you can't sell so many services.

At least, I hope that's what they have realised :-)

lol, are you new to capitalism?

It seems like Microsoft has pivoted to be a cloud, services, and dev tools company. They no longer expect revenue growth from Windows. In that context the best strategy is open-source and support everything.... Exactly what they seem to be doing.

I think this is great. I'd be very glad if this can be used for web development like many folks use OSX nowadays.

We'd be very interested to hear how this is working out for folks doing C/C++ web development

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