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>>fortra+(OP)
It is remarkable how during the last 25 years (approximately), Microsoft has been improving their ability to deliver first (or be among the first), followed by messing up the whole process so that late comers end up taking the crown jewels.

PDAs, mobile phones, tablets, tablets with detachable keyboards, managed OS userspace, HoloLens, the XBox mess, and now AI.

There certainly other examples that I failed to address.

This is what happens when divisions fight among themselves for OKRs and whatever other goals.

>>pjmlp+Vi
And their philosophy of mediocre = good enough. (Not everything ofc, MS is a continent. .net core, language design etc is top-notch.)

>>except+Yj
Which certainly has to do with it being initially developed at Microsoft Research Cambridge, and not plain Microsoft.

>>40472977

https://web.archive.org/web/20190111203733/https://blogs.msd...

>>pjmlp+lm
I would argue that the success has more to do with DevDiv being the strongest technical organization at MS than its provenance.

>>brg+Zn
Until they messed up the whole UWP / WinRT developer experience in Visual Studio.

Also VS 2026 was released with a hard milestone, thus while there is a new settings experience, many options show a dialog from VS 2022, because the new UI is still not implemented for the new experience.

Note that most organisations have to pay for Visual Studio licenses, and get rewarded with such quality.

Slop has also arrived into DevDiv.

>>pjmlp+qs
I think after the failure of Metro, I think Microsoft gave up on native apps entirely and now the story is web or Electron.