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		gecko on May 24, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No-cost desktop software development is dead on Wi... I agree with Ars that the VisualStudio changes are bad, but is there any confirmation that the SDK change isn't temporary/won't have an official solution by the time of shipping? Microsoft has distributed the C++ compiler for years; it'd be very odd for them to do an about-face now. This reminds me off the uproar when Xcode 4 was suddenly a $5 purchase...except that it wasn't for users on the newer OS, when it actually shipped.

randomfool on May 24, 2012 | [–]

If so this really sucks for build machines- don't want to have to get a VS license just for that.

flomo on May 24, 2012 | [–]

An Ars commenter posted this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852363.as...

I agree this is really shocking. Even if most Windows devs bought into Visual Studio Pro & MSDN, there was always the free option.

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