Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Mar 2008 17:52 UTC, submitted by WillM
"Microsoft today announced its first collaboration with the open source Eclipse Foundation by committing provide engineering support to allow the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit use Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation. The move aims to make it easier for Java developers to write applications that look and feel like native Windows Vista, according to Microsoft."
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Except, of course, that .NET apps are fast and look/feel like "native" applications, on XP at least. I've been using Paint.NET (for example) at work, and there doesn't seem to be any slow-down or anything due to it being managed code.
Compared to Eclipse, it feels like it's been written in pure assembly language.
I like Eclipse (it crashes less than VisualStudio, at least for me), I just wish it was faster.
This seems like a weird move for MS.