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People laughed when Steve Balmer went on stage and started dancing around like a crazy man singing "Developers, developers, developers!" but that's what Microso
by mwattsun 5y ago
People laughed when Steve Balmer went on stage and started dancing around like a crazy man singing "Developers, developers, developers!" but that's what Microsoft gets right and Google gets wrong. As a developer, I have no confidence that Google will stick with anything. With Microsoft, I can still create a Windows Forms program. Heck, I could write a DOS program and it will still work in Windows 11. I'm currently learning Microsoft's Blazor because I have no confidence that Google will keeping putting resources into Flutter and Dart (once their internal needs are met, they tend to stop is how I perceive it.)
- echelon 5y agoMicrosoft bought Github and improved it. In addition to Visual Studio and C#, Microsoft developed VSCode and TypeScript. Microsoft pours a lot of love into Azure, WSL, and PowerShell. We know where they're going with things. Google considers us a stretch goal and will deprioritize and defund if developer revenue metrics aren't reached. Google developed Go (mixed feelings) and Dart (meh). GCP was once considered expendable. At the heart of it, they're still an ads company. Microsoft gets it. Google doesn't.
- DantesKite 5y agoI find Google is really good at taking projects that work and building the infrastructure around it to keep it working. They suck at innovation though.
- pjmlp 5y agoMicrosoft mostly gets it, when WinDev vs DevDiv politics don't spoil the roadmap, like on WinRT/UAP/UWP/WinUI chaos, killing .NET Native and C++/CX without proper replacements (.NET 7 might get proper AOT back and C++/WinRT is a time travel to the ATL golden days), or the current war on which GUI framework is supposed to win the day. They seem to have gotten infected with Google style management as new blood took the reigns of product development.