Comment by netdevphoenix
2 days ago
I thought that while Ballmer started the idea, Nadella is the one seen as pivoting the whole company towards the whole cloud first concept
2 days ago
I thought that while Ballmer started the idea, Nadella is the one seen as pivoting the whole company towards the whole cloud first concept
To the point the whole desktop development experience makes us grey hairs miss Balmer.
Nadella would rather sell thin clients into Azure OS mainframe.
As someone that (for now) only ever has 2 digits worth of grey hairs at a time, I feel the same.
It definitely seems like Visual Studio is no longer feeling the love.
IMO Visual Studio presented an incredible opportunity to sell Copilot. Implement a MCP server, give the LLMs in Copilot all the tools available to a human developer to analyze and debug a codebase. Instead it's just a shitty autocomplete you have to turn off in order to get the good, IntelliSense autocomplete working.
Our parent company went hilt-deep into Copilot and ... now they're backing off, because nobody likes it!
I just don't get it. They couldn't get the AI people and the Visual Studio people in a room together? I guess, cynically, probably not, because the AI people aren't on the same continent as the Visual Studio people?
Very frustrating.
You need to jump into VS 2026 for those goodies.
It was so rushed out, that many of the dialog windows on the new settings pane show tiny VS 2022 settings dialogs as popups.
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That might be true, but I think Ballmer claims the "Enterprise Agreement" concept where they just tack on everything as available and have a box for every possible product in the EA. [Edit: The note is really more about founders originally in position to influence the company culture.]