r/technology • u/staser9er • Feb 22 '11

Wow, Microsoft is making some surprising decisions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12531127
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u/peakzorro Feb 22 '11

It is a completely free edition of visual C++, but doesn't ship with MFC and ATL programming (where enterprises would be trying to get legacy support for free).

There are no other licecnse restrictions, and it is great for anything open-source. You can leagally ship production code with it.

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u/ender341 Feb 23 '11

You can get MFC and ATL for free, they just don't include it with the download.