More like 10 months...
The requests have been mounting on UserVoice, the Visual Studio blog and even the personal blogs of VS team members for some time and were repeatedly denied. Of course when Microsoft publicly says no, it's formulated by the marketing department and sounds like this: "We always think of our user base and try to offer developers with the best choice of technologies possible..."
"Listening to customer feedback" makes it sound more as if they just developed VS Express without any company politics involved and desktop applications merely happened to slip through because nobody thought of it.
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#1Cygon
Posted 08 June 2012 - 01:57 PM
More like 10 months...
The requests have been mounting on UserVoice, the Visual Studio blog and even the personal blogs of VS team members for some time and were repeatedly denied. Of course when Microsoft publicly says no, it's formulated by the marketing department and sounds like this: "We always think of our user base and try to offer developers with the best choice of technologies possible..."
"Listening to customer feedback" makes it sound more as if they just developed VS Express without any company politics involved and desktop application just happened to slip through because nobody thought of it.
The requests have been mounting on UserVoice, the Visual Studio blog and even the personal blogs of VS team members for some time and were repeatedly denied. Of course when Microsoft publicly says no, it's formulated by the marketing department and sounds like this: "We always think of our user base and try to offer developers with the best choice of technologies possible..."
"Listening to customer feedback" makes it sound more as if they just developed VS Express without any company politics involved and desktop application just happened to slip through because nobody thought of it.