Excellent move. Reclaiming the Arduino (soon to be Genuino) movement and also bringing manufacturing to the US. Adafruit has been a great part of the maker movement here, glad to see them participating in this next phase of the Arduino.
Unfortunately, I can't download it for my android phone, only a few are supported. But it's great that MS is releasing on platforms other than windows. Even though right now, the Windows phone market is tiny, the more they open up their products, the more awareness they will gain for their platform.
You're trying to shift attention away from Apple by attacking another vendor. Unless Microsoft Windows updates have some affect on Apple's updates, your links have no relevance to the problems with Apple's wifi bugs.
Looks like a step in the right direction, where a lot of other developers already are. When they were pushing TFS, I didn't know if it was a 'me too' kind of move, or an attempt to provide an MS proprietary solution, or what. But getting in step with a lot of other developers, and hopefully playing nice, will get them a seat at the table with all developers, instead of projecting an attitude of: the world revolves around us. MS has been making some remarkable announcements at this Build conference, and making it easier for developers to get into MS technologies as well. This is a much better approach than when Ballmer was CEO.
"Microsoft has come a long way from the company that everybody loved to hate"
Although, during the last few years, MS seemed to be the company that everyone ignored. But there is still a lot of built up animus against MS, due to their past business practices.
This is definitely a big and newsworthy announcement from MS Build. And one of the few times that linux was given any respect as a platform. I think it still remains to be seen as to how serious MS is about real cross-platform products and work, but it's a great step. If they make their cross platform products roughly equal, not like that mono crap, then I would consider that to be a real effort by MS.
Interestingly, Atom is already available on MS, OSX, and linux today. They need to make it competitive and updated with the current Atom to be popular. On the other hand, this gives Atom some good competition and impetus to improvement, and I already like Atom.
They may have been under development during Ballmer's time, but it's hard to believe that they would've seen the light of day under Ballmer's leadership. And if Ballmer released any open sourced products, I get the feeling that there would be major strings attached. And it would have a switch and bait sort of feel to it. Kind of like Oracle with Java and other technologies from Sun.
The fact is, Nadella has made open source a lot more palatable from Microsoft.
Yup, I'm going to upgrade. After a little while when most of the glaring bugs will be ironed out of course. I find that's the best approach to living on the bleeding edge.
Everyone here is pretty much saying, get your own laptop. I'm going to add my voice that sentiment. On practical grounds, you don't want to give your employer any reason to put a checkmark about you on the negative ledger. Even if a lot of people there do it as well, you just want to avoid negative marks, especially at a large corp. On another level, it just feels more like your own work and product when done completely with your own resources. Good luck with the startup.
This is a nice way to feature and popularize open source software. It would be nice to have a way to integrate the repo with each individual app. May the play store should have a section like this.
"Linux isn't free for the companies who hire them"
Actually, Windows isn't free for the companies who hire them. And you need to hire a lot more Windows admins than Linux admins if you want to keep your server farm running. But Windows admins are cheaper than Linux/Unix admins, so the phb can crow about that.
"Emulating the 6502 is in itself is a significant undertaking so this phase took on the order of a week or two."
Don't know if the author was bragging or what, but it reminds me of the fact that Woz designed and created all of the hardware and software for the original Apple and Apple II. Nicely done for it's time. I wonder if anyone can create something would be equivalent to today's systems.