And if we learned from his mistakes? Well, that's certainly what makes me think the latest from Microsoft, as criticized several aspects in recent years. After being ridiculed by all developers with IE6, and more recently from consumers who seem not to have actually adopted the touch approach imposed by Windows 8, the technology giant gradually seems to come out of the head water.
Having made free Office on Android and iOS last week, Microsoft has rocked the world of development, making this time .NET open source, and pledging to make it work on Linux and Mac OS X . In addition, the firm intends to distribute a special version of its popular IDE, Visual Studio.
Soma Somasegar, vice president of the Division of developers at Microsoft, confirmed that the .NET Core would finally be under the MIT license, a license free software and open source, not copyleft, so for including changes d other licenses, including non-free.
The development platform will also be on other platforms outside of Windows, with a planned port to Linux and Mac OS X, and possibly on Android and iOS thereafter.
All this sounds great, but it's a bit more complicated than it seems. Much, but not all, of the original .NET frameword is available, but only in "read only". What we now have is a small subset of the .NET sources provided to help you debug programs. The .NET Core is a revised version of .NET, which is based on the simplified version of class libraries, and a design that allows .NET to be incorporated in applications.
Full of features
Somasegar also confirmed that Microsoft was going to build a free and rich editing features in Visual Studio, called Visual Studio 2013 Community which would be free for the development of non-professional applications .
He also provided details about the next Visual Studio .NET 2015 and 2015. Perhaps the only major improvement is that the platform will push on other mobile platforms such as iOS and Android.
This is a huge gamble for Microsoft, a company that has changed a lot since Satya Nadella took over the reins of the company, so much so that even the director of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, agrees that the new version of Microsoft's "certainly a different organization in terms of open source."
Having made free Office on Android and iOS last week, Microsoft has rocked the world of development, making this time .NET open source, and pledging to make it work on Linux and Mac OS X . In addition, the firm intends to distribute a special version of its popular IDE, Visual Studio.
Soma Somasegar, vice president of the Division of developers at Microsoft, confirmed that the .NET Core would finally be under the MIT license, a license free software and open source, not copyleft, so for including changes d other licenses, including non-free.
All this sounds great, but it's a bit more complicated than it seems. Much, but not all, of the original .NET frameword is available, but only in "read only". What we now have is a small subset of the .NET sources provided to help you debug programs. The .NET Core is a revised version of .NET, which is based on the simplified version of class libraries, and a design that allows .NET to be incorporated in applications.
Full of features
Somasegar also confirmed that Microsoft was going to build a free and rich editing features in Visual Studio, called Visual Studio 2013 Community which would be free for the development of non-professional applications .
He also provided details about the next Visual Studio .NET 2015 and 2015. Perhaps the only major improvement is that the platform will push on other mobile platforms such as iOS and Android.
This is a huge gamble for Microsoft, a company that has changed a lot since Satya Nadella took over the reins of the company, so much so that even the director of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, agrees that the new version of Microsoft's "certainly a different organization in terms of open source."