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When you think Microsoft can’t be any more hostile to its users they always surprise you with another trick up their sleeve. There are not many companies which

When you think Microsoft can’t be any more hostile to its users they always surprise you with another trick up their sleeve. There are not many companies which I’ve grown to immensely dislike over the years like Microsoft. I started my career as a .NET developer and huge fan of their products, buying into all their crap from all the way from Silverlight to Windows Phone, WPF and even owned a Surface Pro 3 tablet/laptop but today there is really rarely a company that makes me reck as much as Microsoft with their product announcements. My opinion of this company couldn’t be any lower and I hugely judge any developer working in Windows. I know I shouldn’t but I can’t help myself that unless they are a game developer there is objectively speaking absolutely no reason for a developer to work on a Surface device or Windows.

capl 2y ago
Same here. Once worked with a guy who was a huge Microsoft fan, calling Macs and Linux-based workstations “nothing but toys”. Naturally I couldn’t help but laugh when he couldn’t work for 20 minutes due to a forced windows update and then a blue screen after booting up again. The Candy crush and other crappy apps/games in combination to being a full fledged spyware OS with adware on top is already enough to make me run away screaming.
pjmlp 2y ago
Macs are too damm expensive, don't really offer dollar per CPU/GPU/GB, and I am tired that there is always something that doesn't work with Pinguin OSes since 1995, even though I also admin UNIX boxes as part of the many hats I wear. Android and Chrome OS aren't really a replacement for desktop OSes, and Google is even worse in spying users anyway.
talldayo 2y ago
> there is objectively speaking absolutely no reason for a developer to work on a Surface device or Windows. So uuh... where are you shipping software then?
- tracker1 2y ago
  Linux servers, web based ui, service backends, much of it in Docker.

capl 2y ago

Same here. Once worked with a guy who was a huge Microsoft fan, calling Macs and Linux-based workstations “nothing but toys”. Naturally I couldn’t help but laugh when he couldn’t work for 20 minutes due to a forced windows update and then a blue screen after booting up again. The Candy crush and other crappy apps/games in combination to being a full fledged spyware OS with adware on top is already enough to make me run away screaming.

pjmlp 2y ago

Macs are too damm expensive, don't really offer dollar per CPU/GPU/GB, and I am tired that there is always something that doesn't work with Pinguin OSes since 1995, even though I also admin UNIX boxes as part of the many hats I wear. Android and Chrome OS aren't really a replacement for desktop OSes, and Google is even worse in spying users anyway.

talldayo 2y ago

> there is objectively speaking absolutely no reason for a developer to work on a Surface device or Windows. So uuh... where are you shipping software then?

tracker1 2y ago
Linux servers, web based ui, service backends, much of it in Docker.