PowerToys going open source
Yesterday I wrote
something about the new PowerToys, and compared them to the other alternatives. I you read
that post, you'll see the comments of Josh Ledgard of MS:
Hi Jan. I'm one of the guys at Microsoft who works on
the Power Toys. I wanted to let you know a little bit
about the PowerToys effort. I promise that we didn't work
on these projects to displace third party tools. I
actually think that all of the commenting tools you
mention have their plusses and minuses. And at the moment
some are more polished than the one our team released.
One of the motivations included giving people samples from
Microsoft for extending the shell. You can never have too
many samples. Another is that we just thought it would be
a cool project to work on and provide a forum for other
developers in the community to also work on. Actually,
we've been in contact with the writer of the VBXC tool you
mentioned and he has recently joined our workspace project
on gotdotnet that allows for other people to modify the
code. If your interested feel free to check out our
workspaces.. http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx?id=107870
Thanks,
josh
I think Josh
is completly right: you can't have too many samples and it's
a cool project to work on! And ofcourse they did not start
these projects to kill similar third party tools. I hope my
previous post wasn't misunderstood, because I was trying to
say that I really like the initiative. And going open source
to the GotDotNet workspaces only makes it better:
So Josh, I hope you read this post too:
keep up the good work, and thanks for
commenting on my blog (it's kinda cool MS guys/girls are
reading this ;-)!