This is absolutely true. I think it's a cultural difference within the Windows development community. I've made maybe two bug reports to Microsoft related to .

This is absolutely true. I think it's a cultural difference within the Windows development community. I've made maybe two bug reports to Microsoft related to .NET or SQLServer in the past 8 years. Everything else was either already reported and being fixed in the next 2-3 years or was reported and written off as "you are on your own - we're not fixing it". I've had similar experiences with big proprietary Windows frameworks like DevExpress. Unfortunately at this point I don't think it's changing because it's what everyone expects. After finding the nth response like this it becomes apparent that it's easier to just find a work around and complain rather than continue to bash your head into the wall. Hopefully Windows users will learn to contribute and report bugs in community driven development someday...