Their cloud “stack” is pretty modern. I thats clearly where a lot of their effort has gone. And not to be too “fanboy” about it, .NET 6 is superb (for web dev

Their cloud “stack” is pretty modern. I thats clearly where a lot of their effort has gone. And not to be too “fanboy” about it, .NET 6 is superb (for web dev at least). I think it’s worth giving MS some credit for what they’ve achieved there. Like it or not, Azure is impressive. But I agree with you with regards to the traditional Windows stack. It’s not in a good state at all. I rarely use Windows any more, at least where I can help it. And I’ve been an MS orientated developer (starting with VB/ASP) my whole career. At this stage I’d be very happy to never touch Windows again unless they make a very sharp course correction in the next year or two! (And to the point of the article, I’ve switched from a career-long use of Visual Studio on Windows to Rider on the Mac and I’ll hopefully never go back!)