not everything is a team effort, and the desire espoused all over this thread for an equivalency clearly demonstrates that there is a 'market' there. when some

not everything is a team effort, and the desire espoused all over this thread for an equivalency clearly demonstrates that there is a 'market' there. when some small developer is making a silly one-off app for a mom&pop local store to facilitate a one-off kind of task they aren't interested in handing off work and splitting meager profits. not every company has the whole "front-end/back-end/devops/ux/design/management" paradigm going on. the reality is that microsoft , a fairly litigious group of people, abandoned a concept for their own reasons; and the rest of the market doesn't exactly know where they can step in that minefield of offering equivalent features to a piece of software that is still on life support by a very very large/valuable/litigious company.