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Has Microsoft built anything in the last decade that isn’t of questionable quality/user experience?
by PUSH_AX 1y ago
Has Microsoft built anything in the last decade that isn’t of questionable quality/user experience?
- yifanl 1y agoThere's no question to the quality of Copilot.
- fuzzy2 1y agoIs there? And which Copilot is that? Github? Office 365? Windows? Yet another?
- EvanAnderson 1y agoObligatory link to my comment re: Microsoft product naming and the discussion that followed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419292
- PUSH_AX 1y agoI was under the impression GitHub built and maintained that, but perhaps that’s changed… If not I wouldn’t consider it a Microsoft built product like windows etc (yes I’m aware ms owns gh)
- lawlessone 1y agoeveryone that contributed a project to github built it.
- plorkyeran 1y agoI genuinely don’t know if you mean “it’s unquestionably bad” or “it’s unquestionably good”.
- margalabargala 1y agoI'm sure there are some people out there somewhere who haven't tried it and so still think it could be good.
- chollida1 1y agomost people like vs code and lots of companies have built on top of it so there must be some quality there that people like.
- groby_b 1y agoIt's more that there isn't a single credible alternative. So, winning by default, not by merit.
- lovich 1y agoThe editor itself, Monaco, is nice enough and I’ve built some browser based ides, with it. Clientele consisting of primarily data scientists seemed to enjoy it
- cjbgkagh 1y agoBut it didn’t win by default, it beat out the other alternatives, sublime and a GitHub editor (prior to acquisition). VS Code (Monaco at the time) was developed by a small team largely in secret to keep it safe from other MS departments so it’s really not like other MS software. It has been safe from meddling for a while there is a chance it’ll be a victim of its own success.