Mega Microsoft dev tools update includes Clang codegen for Windows Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 with a ton of new features, including an option to build Windows dynamic libraries with the open source Clang compiler. The developer team at Microsoft has been in overdrive these last few years, coping with the challenge of keeping up with the company's ever-changing platform …
I'd only call it bloat if some of the features which add size are deprecated or not useful.
Granted, I personally have no interest in code highlighting for Swift but presumably somebody does.
Out of interest, does the Register have a picture of Nadella where he doesn't look like he's struggling with a potentially fatal bout of constipation? At least you didn't call him "SatNad" this time, a practice which I note that executives with Anglo names are somehow spared.
It's pretty poor and likely to appeal to the same kind of casual racist who thinks "M Knight Shyamalamadingdong" is hilarious. Maybe you could call John Chen "John Chingchongchinaman" as well. Oh, how we laughed in the BNP canteen.
Microsoft desperately trying to stay relevant in a post Microsoft world, bundling everything in there , in the hope something might stop the rot into obsolescence that Microsoft has been suffering for the last 4 years or so.
I counted Microsoft vs *nix devices St home. *nix beat Microsoft by over 20:1. I suspect other people have similar stats.
I have no need for windows, office or anything Microsoft serve up.
I have a PC that runs windows 10, I really dislike win 10, but keep it as I get alot of support calls from botched free upgrades.
My games console runs FreeBSD, my phones and tablets run Android, even my Sony DSLR runs Android, cleverly hidden.. My router runs Linux, my Qualcomm Allplay multiroom speakers all run some form of embedded Linux running alljoyn. Chromebook, Linux too....
Even my nest and LIFX bulbs run *nix of some description.
Microsoft are nowhere. They aren't needed for anything I do day to day. My only use of my PC is to run Android Studio. It could just as easilly run on Linux.
Planty, I'm in a similar situation, except that for me I have no need for anything from Google or Apple, so I'm happy to be all in with Microsoft. There might be some hardware I have which runs some version of unix (no idea to be honest) but when it comes to software which I choose, it's always Microsoft, which is great.
Visual Studio is the best IDE for me, by a long way.
It's great to have the choice to go all in with your preferred platform.
"I am an Englishman"
Not to me you are not with that imported attitude.
"Go back to your Britain First memes."
Not heard of that before, but I see they are a political party with well over 1 million Facebook Followers, which seems to beat most others, so pretty mainstream.
LOL @ them drinking lager outside Anjem Choudry's mosque to campaign against his "muslim patrols" stopping English people drinking. Good non violent way of fighting back against some of these outrageously offensive foreigners.
>no interest in code highlighting for Swift
Seems like a pretty poorly chosen example. In any clever editor, language-sensitive code formatting is going to be coming from a generic parser module, to which you pass a language-specific grammar definition in text/json/xml form. Hardly the stuff bloat is made of.
Not to say VS is lacking in bloat elsewhere.
Worth noting that Windows Universal development is used to massively push Windows 10.
If you run VS2015 on Win 7, you can do nothing WUD related (bar the build of a project written on a "higher" version of the MS OS).
Really need
Even on 8.1 is this gem in the MS documentation "When running on OS earlier than Windows 10, some Visual Studio features for Windows Universal development may be degraded."
see: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-2015-compatibility-vs.aspx
Well since Windows 7 doesn't come with the necessary runtime subsystems what do you expect to do on Windows 7 bar build the project? You can't run it or test it. (I'm actually surprised that you can run any Universal app on Windows 8/8.1 since they changed the runtime from 8/8.1 to 10.)
If you really wanted to stay on Windows 7 then you just need the Pro Edition and grab a disposable Windows 10 VM.
A source close to the matter explained: "we've put telemetry in everything! The first thing we did was to redefine what the word telemetry meant - now it's both the rapid path your data takes to our servers as well as the data itself! Then we had to add it to Visual Studio. Pretty much every function call now has added 'telemetry' goodness in it! Heck, we even did good old printf for a while until one of our servers crashed under the weight of too many "hello world!\n" strings sent in from around the globe. Your privacy is important to us: we strive hard and deep each day to make sure you don't have any."
When asked whether they enjoyed using Visual Studio With Added Telemetry Edition 2015 for their own personal projects, the spokesperson just laughed, explaining: "what, and have them know everything about me? Hell no - I do everything in Python in XEmacs on Linux" before being swiftly ushered out by a brittle-smiling PR person.
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