[hueving]

How is that good?

[d_luaz]

How is it bad?

[bottled_poe]

That is not a good counter-argument. Anyone can do something that is not worthwhile.

[d_luaz]

The author did mentioned "it's meant to complement it", I assume that is good: use if if you like it, ignore it if you don't.

I guess the opinion of "not worthwhile" doesn't constitute good or bad either for the Ardruino community.

[spiritplumber]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

[d_luaz]

Assuming M$ is always evil is still a personal opinion, doesn't mean it's bad. Replace M$ with Google, Apple, Amazon or any other company doing the same thing, does it actually bring out any meaningful conclusion?

I assume better Ardruino support on Windows is a good thing.

[spiritplumber]

Going from past data, though....

Arduino on Windows so far works pretty well as-is.

[fnordfnordfnord]

IMO some huge potential is missed by the community's collective lack of interest in leveraging Processing (or any other similar thing) to make GUI + open hardware goodies. MS has the potential to do some good here by integrating in an open source friendly way, or they could attempt dirty tricks. I'll encourage/hope for friendliness and interoperability.