What developers want...

Dare responds to a post by Ted Neward.

The big problem that Microsoft faces in this space is that developers tend to want all their tools to come from a single vendor.

Bzzzzt.

That may be what Microsoft wants, but it is most certainly not what developers want.

What developers want is to have the ability to choose the tools that enable them to be most productive. What developers really want is for the tools they choose to be interoperable with the other tools/platforms they use.

The last thing that developers (and their management) want is to be locked-into a single vendor solution for all their needs.