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Visual Studio ever ship with Windows?  Microsoft has considered
shipping a version of Visual Studio Express with …  Back in
June, a blogger by the name of Jeroen van den Bos posted an
article on his blog where he argued that Windows Vista should
ship with one of the Visual Studio Express editions installed.
van den Bos recalled the days when he could boot up his
Commodore 64 and just start programming away. Many operating
systems have since deviated from that concept, especially
Windows, but van den Bos claims that it can still happen. All
Microsoft needs to do is ship Windows with Visual Studio
Express, a free version of the Visual Studio IDE. It sounds
simple enough, but Microsoft says that's not the case at all.
According to Visual Studio Express' Lead Product Manager Dan
Fernandez, Microsoft had seriously considered the idea of
bundling an Express edition of Visual Studio with Vista, but
there were just too many snags. Fernandez says that the