Microsoft doesn't really make money off their development tools. Traditionally Microsoft would only try to break even with some of their development costs for the tools. Microsoft also knows that by releasing this slightly slimmed down version of their development enviroment they can get people to develop for Windows and more importantly run windows. Don't think Microsoft is neive in what they do. As another point Microsoft removed ATL and MFC from the beta C++, however don't think that they didn't think that people would use the .net constructs instead.
Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews wrote:
Well it'd be stupid of Microsoft to release a "beta" of software that costs ~1000 dollars brand new and let people develop software with it for their own purposes... It is, after all, just an extended test :/
- Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews
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