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It's probably a lot easier to make a useful product when you work with what's already out there rather than asking thousands of other developers to make new pac
by TillE 5y ago
It's probably a lot easier to make a useful product when you work with what's already out there rather than asking thousands of other developers to make new packages, or doing all the work yourself and only having open source software.
Anyway, Microsoft already has their own package format with MSI, which is not particularly elegant, but it's a reason to avoid reinventing the wheel.
- wongarsu 5y agoAnd Microsoft already tried making a better package format (msix) for their other centralized package manager (Microsoft Store), complete with sandboxing and everything. It wasn't exactly a roaring success.
- rbanffy 5y agoMicrosoft's power to dictate what developers should do and how is curiously small considering their market share in the personal computer market. Apple, OTOH, has no issues deprecating functionality when they consider removing it (and disabling applications that rely on it) is beneficial to their ecosystem.
- renata 5y agoIsn't Microsoft's backward-compatibility widely considered a reason for their overwhelming share of the PC market? You get more developers and more useful programs when people don't have to rewrite them for the new hotness every year.