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Originally posted by Ian W.
i mean, it's all lovely and such that we're getting VS.NET, but I would really like to know why...
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It's just a guess, but I think MS is just trying to get us hooked on their products. Given the insane quantity and insane profit margins (80% on Windows), it will cost them almost nothing to donate a few hundred copies. On the other hand, if they manage to get us hooked on their products so we end up buying large numbers of licenses later in life, it will pay off big-time. This is the reason why MS has such an amazing college-student discount program--I got VC++ 6.0 pro, which is normally $400+ for $80 by faxing them my college ID even though I wasn't even technically "in" college!
Since I'm one of the only ones on my team that knows any of the languages in VS.net (C/C++, VB, etc) I'm hoping there isn't going to be anything about the game that
requires it as I would have to teach high-power languages to the rest of the team in addition to PBASIC. On the other hand, if there's some kind of new programming award, I would be
very happy...