Visual Studio for Mac goes after cloud and mobile developersīy porting Visual Studio to the Mac, Microsoft wants to keep developers using its tools, and all its adjacent services, most of which are very Azure-friendly, one of Microsoft's major revenue streams.Īzure, who is quite a reputable and reliable service on its own, has had little growth, thanks to the perceived vendor lock-in that many developers expect when dealing with Microsoft products.īy porting Visual Studio to the Mac, and open-sourcing more and more of its products, Microsoft is winking at developers and showing them the door. NET compiler platform, developing TypeScript, open-sourcing Edge's JavaScript engine, keeping Xamarin open source after its acquisition, and more, the Redmond company has made another unexpected move. After announcing it would contribute code to the Linux project, porting the Linux bash for Windows 10, open-sourcing the Roslyn.
On the development scene, Microsoft has been very friendly as of late. The move to port Visual Studio, one of Microsoft's most defining products next to Windows and the Office Suite, isn't surprising in the big picture. Microsoft announced today plans to release Visual Studio for Mac at the upcoming Connect() conference set to start this Wednesday on November 16.
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