Microsoft removes barriers for open source on Windows 8

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 11, 2012 11:39 PM EDT
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Microsoft has removed a potential barrier to open source developers planning on using Windows 8 by reversing its decision to only allow its free-of-charge developer tools to create Windows 8 Metro applications. In a blog posting, Microsoft has declared that developers using the free-of-charge version of Visual Studio will now be able to write standard desktop applications for Windows 8 and noted that its move "will enable developers working on open source applications to target existing and previous versions of Windows".

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well that's big of them tuxchick 6 921 Jun 12, 2012 1:06 PM

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