Microsoft open sources .NET, saying it'll run on Linux and Mac

[MannDude]

Anyone else see this: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/microsoft-open-sources-net-says-will-run-linux-mac ?

In yet another bid to make up lost ground in the long march to the future of computing, Microsoft is now open sourcing the very foundation of .NET—the software that millions of developers use to build and operate websites and other large online applications—and it says this free code will eventually run not only on computer servers that use its own Windows operating system, but also atop machines equipped with Linux or Apple’s Mac OS, Microsoft’s two main operating system rivals.

“We want to have a developer offering that is relevant and attractive and valuable to any developer working on any kind of application,” says S. “Soma” Somasegar, the 25-year Microsoft veteran oversees the company’s wide range of tools for software developers.

Lot more in the link above.

What do you think?

 

[Aldryic C'boas]

"Maybe if we just bite the bullet and make it open, MONO will stop embarrassing us by doing it better".

 

[comXyz]

It should be called weird.com with this article.

 

[sv01]

They should get in contact with mono developer before launching this f*ck not after.

 

[wlanboy]

There are key features that will rock the .Net environment:

• No more monolithic +200MB fat blob runtime
• Modular Core Framework
• Nuget for extensions
• Opensource access to the Core Framework
• ASP.Net vNext
• Crossplattform compiling: Roslyn
• Crossplattform development: Xamarin
• New async node.js like webserver Katana

Heck they do have a drive.

More likely that they are faster than the minds of most MS bashers