[tracker1]

More like it was shoring up for developers who use and/or target mac and linux. Many devs are using macs and targetting linux for deployments. MS wants Azure to be a first class option for developers and is the focus for making money going forward. It makes sense for their developer tools to offer that.

[Kye]

Azure didn't exist. OS X had just come out and almost no one took Macs seriously as a development target yet. Windows was the only user-facing thing anyone developed for aside from little Java games on flip phones. The Web 2.0 takeover was still years off and Internet Explorer ran the show.

Is "historical context" not as clear as I thought? You're the second person to challenge this by pointing out the current situation when I'm talking about how we got here.

[tracker1]

The first Macs to use Intel processors were released in January 2006

Microsoft Azure was first released on February 1, 2010

Microsoft released .NET Core 1.0 on June 27, 2016

[Kye]

This was 2001 and earlier. You're talking about stuff that happened 5+ years later.

[tracker1]

Yes, I'm talking about when they added real cross-platform support to .Net, which was with .Net Core.

[Kye]

Then you're not talking about what I was talking about in the post you replied to with a framing that suggested you were disagreeing. Did you click the wrong reply link?