I just feel sorry for Microsoft developers. As a Windows app developer I felt Microsoft was deliberately trying to waste my time. Rather than adding useful func

I just feel sorry for Microsoft developers. As a Windows app developer I felt Microsoft was deliberately trying to waste my time. Rather than adding useful functionality to their frameworks that would make it easier to do the common tasks that most apps need, such as better rich edit controls, syntax highlighting, and practical APIs to manipulate images, videos, and mp3, etc. There are plenty of individual 3rd parties libraries that do these things, if you want to spend the money to license each one and they will only work in Windows version X and Y but not version XY. Why the hell can't Microsoft invest some time into making exciting and useful features built into their framework? Developers would flock to Windows development if it were actually easy to do cool things, but it's not. Instead Microsoft pushes all Windows developers to waste time adding support for their new pet features of the season that no one asked for. I got tired of it and finally realized web applications are much easier to develop and have a much greater growth potential than Windows apps.