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It would be amusing for Microsoft to end up in a situation where developers don’t want to target Windows anymore, just like Apple in the 90’s. Perhaps they thi
by tonyedgecombe 2y ago
It would be amusing for Microsoft to end up in a situation where developers don’t want to target Windows anymore, just like Apple in the 90’s.
Perhaps they think it doesn’t matter once everything is in the cloud.
- debugnik 2y agoWe're most of the way there with the switch to web apps and their native wrappers, even Microsoft isn't using their own UI toolkits anymore. The only segments left targeting Windows as a platform are games, replacements/extensions to the OS tools, and a bunch of legacy .NET LOB apps. And since the Steam Deck and clones, Wine/Proton are (very) slowly becoming the actual target for games rather than Windows.
- extraduder_ire 2y agoI think that long before that developers will still be targeting the windows APIs, even if they're not intending their software for windows.