Microsoft reckons Windows is top dog, but that hasn't stopped the giant from cracking open the door in Visual Studio 2010 to some outside help. Bob Muglia, Windows server and tools chief, presided over Microsoft's other - less glamorous - Monday product launch, by pushing Windows on PCs, servers, and mobile and the nascent Azure cloud as ready-made markets for developers building and deploying new applications. He highlighted investments in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 to help individuals and teams save time coding and debugging their Windows software. But Muglia's presentation underscored the challenge that Microsoft faces in persuading developers to use its tools not to deploy to Linux, Apple's iPhone, or Amazon's cloud as an alternatives to Windows. Muglia highlighted the "big investment" made in the Visual Studio 2010 code editor to improve the way its famed IntelliSense works with Javascript and JQuery, provides support for non-Microsoft Javascript libraries, and brings built-in support for HMTL snippets.for further: www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/13/visual_studio_2010_windows_appeal/
