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Mandatory internet connection while programming Windows Store apps?

This one beggars belief. What happened to 'developers developers developers'? At least with the online requirement for gamers, there's a certain interal logic to it (however crazy and wrong) but there seems to be no sense in making it harder for developers to create content for you.

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This one is certainly not true as a developer who spends his day job building Windows Store apps.

You will need an internet connection to acquire a developer license once every thirty days but that takes about two minutes and that's about it.

This misfeature causes me more heartburn than the others. I have to manually touch all of my build slaves once a month to keep them compiling.

Furthermore, you can't run unit tests without an interactive session, so the build slaves would have to auto-login on boot; we chose instead to not run the unit tests automatically on checkins.

Agreed it's still frustrating, but it's no where near the clusterfuck the OP implies.

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