I'm kind of a MS fanboy, but please don't believe their lies:
- VS is still not free; the community edition can only be legally used by very small companies with slim revenue
- the Xamarin acquisition will turn out to be a slap in the face of developers who want to cross target Android and WP
- the desaster of the Metro App API that has been replaced by UWP after being hailed as the future of application development for Windows (for a time, you could develop Windows 8.1 Metro Apps only on Windows 8.1 machine, not a Windows 8 machine)
Anybody doing any non-desktop application development on Windows is shouldering the full risk of obsolescence within 2 year.
I would really, really like a cooperation between Google and Microsoft in the area of the utterly braindead 90ies API of Android development by switching to XAML + C# ... ah, a man can dream!
That's a somewhat harsh accusation, where are they lying? Their web page clearly explains the usage scenarios and who can use it for "free" [0] (scroll down to "Usage").
Anybody doing any non-desktop application development on Windows is shouldering the full risk of obsolescence within 2 year.
I would really, really like a cooperation between Google and Microsoft in the area of the utterly braindead 90ies API of Android development by switching to XAML + C# ... ah, a man can dream!