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The Xbox360 runtime was notorious bad and suffered from the WinDev/DevTools difference of opinions how the future of WIndows development should look like.

Hence killing XNA when they took over Windows 8 development, WinRT and such.

It took all the reorganizations and change of politics, for the .NET Runtime finally start getting some additional love regarding performance.

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> The Xbox360 runtime was notorious bad and suffered from the WinDev/DevTools difference of opinions how the future of WIndows development should look like.

The past tense structure makes it sound like progress has been made on this front while it’s still the same problem presently. It’s just that those tools in particular have been deprecated (and not replaced)

Well, how would you correctly phrase it in proper English then?

That was the reason why the XBox 360 runtime was bad, the remaining of my comment refers to the standard .NET Framework.

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