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I think Microsoft forgot about developers for a while. The Windows 8 timeframe wasn't a great time to be a Microsoft developer. They have been recovering mindsh
by Eridrus 10y ago
I think Microsoft forgot about developers for a while. The Windows 8 timeframe wasn't a great time to be a Microsoft developer. They have been recovering mindshare lately, but it's the same back and forth. It's less clear that developer mindshare even matters as much these days when the web is the real desktop platform for most software.
- Fnoord 10y ago> I think Microsoft forgot about developers for a while. The Windows 8 timeframe wasn't a great time to be a Microsoft developer. Microsoft wasn't thinking much about web developers during their monopoly of Internet Explorer. Or, well, they might've had thoughts. But no love.
- pjmlp 10y agoDepends on the developers you talk to. As someone whose Windows dev experience goes back to Windows 3.0, I was thrilled with WinRT, having Visual C++ finally catching up with C++ Builder and .NET finally going properly native as it should have been since .NET 1.0.
- bostand 10y agoYeah, but they also started a number of projects only to kill them later (eg Silverlight). This was very annoying for developers who had invested a lot of time. Hopefully things will be more stable now.
- alphaomegacode 10y agoOne company I worked for, we architected on Microsoft with no looking back during the dotcom boom of the late 90s, early 2000s. Within about 3-4 years after that, the transition was made wholly to open source such as Python, Linux, PHP after a lot of little frustrations piled up such as the licensing models for our backend servers, dev tools and so forth.