> Every third-party app uses a different toolkit with a different look and feel This always infuriated me on Windows, and a big reason I moved to macOS. This

> Every third-party app uses a different toolkit with a different look and feel This always infuriated me on Windows, and a big reason I moved to macOS. This is a great read: https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt-everything-old-is-new-again/ https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt... > ...the biggest problem is that USER [API] is essentially inextensible. If a developer wants to create, say, a menu that acts exactly like the standard operating system menu but with some small extra feature (for example, he might want to support the drag and drop, similar to the Favorites menu in Internet Explorer) he generally has no option but to reinvent the entire menu system from scratch. Seems like the failure of the Longhorn project really messed things up. It was suppose to replace the janky old win32 with .NET managed APIs. I just remember XAML/WPF/.NET being incredibly slow. And choosing a managed language for OS stuff seemed bad. I can't believe no one was doing a quick POC and saying: this is too slow. You have to give credit to Apple platform team. They have some real visionaries there. They had the guts to ignore garbage collection even when it was taking over the entire software industry. I guess MS just needed a competitor for Java.