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You had trust in Microsoft? The Microsoft Office team still seems somewhat legit but the windows division has been garbage for years.

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Since Balmer honestly.

Actually Balmer cared much more about Windows than Satya, as long Azure, Office and Games are printing money, nothing else matters.

Hence why the Windows development experience has went downhill since he took over.

We might have a Microsoft <3 Linux, with a ton of FOSS products being on Microsoft's accounting list, however Windows is a shade of itself versus "Developers, Developers, Developers" days.

Recent example, Microsoft Photos team proudly presents their UWP to Windows APP SDK migration,

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2024/06/03/micros...

Turns out they are now using WebView2 for the UI part.

That's fair, I guess. I thought XP was shockingly horrible in many ways and Vista was kind of a disaster also, but at the same time that was also partly the result of forcing in security features and there was no way that wasn't going to be a painful process while developers and users adapted. And Windows 7 came out on his watch as well, so very fair point.

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