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The issue with Microsoft until recently, has been the power of WinDev, which are the ones responsible for anything C++ on Microsoft dungeons.

Hence the failure of Longhorn, or any attempt coming out from Microsoft Research.

Ironically, given your Sun remark, Microsoft is back into the Java game, having their own distribution of OpenJDK, and Java is usually the only ecosystem that has day one parity with anything Azure puts out as .NET SDK.

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quietbritishjim 5 hours ago | parent [-]

What is "WinDev"? A quick search didn't turn up much except a French Wikipedia article.

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pjmlp 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Windows Development, per opposition to DevDiv, Developer Division.

Two quite common names in the Microsoft ecosystem.

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loup-vaillant 4 hours ago | parent [-]

For a moment there I thought you were referring to this trademark: https://pcsoft.fr/windev/index.html Which was known at a time for having young women in light clothing in their marketing material.

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jcelerier an hour ago | parent [-]

aha, that's the windev that comes to mind too. I didn't know they were actually a french company, wild that they're still around... their ads were plastered everywere in the 2000s.

Apparently they have a programming language for which you can "one-click-switch" between english and french for the keywords??? https://pcsoft.fr/windev/ebook/56/

	▲	voidfunc an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's actually kind of neat, also I love how the brochure uses the American flag for English...