If you want to understand these people, watch the Daily Beast podcast "Inside Trump's Head" with Michael Wolff. It's a little slow but will paint the picture of their motivations, friendship, falling out, etc etc.
> I'm still kind of surprised it took him that long to learn that software quality had fallen off that far
Isn't that to some extent (or perhaps exactly) what is going on today? All employees at MS are using the polished Enterprise edition without all the cruft and without many of the annoyances. I bet most of them have never tried to use, eg, the home edition. Few of them has probably ever tried to pick a new PC from a retail store full of trialware and "optimizations" made by the retail store.
The point is that most MS employees don't get to see the edition of Windows that we, normal consumers, do.
Yup, I am getting this complaint a lot. Pushing an update by this week with credit usage details. Which model eats how much credit to generate a specific project.
If you had a beefy desktop Vista actually ran very smooth. I happend to have that at the time and I did only have a fraction of the issues that Vista i famous for. Everyone at MS probably also had beefy computer that ran Vista just fine.
Microsoft came close with Midori but bailed out and canned the product just before it should have been released in alfa / beta 1
> Midori is an experimental managed code operating system that was in development until 2015. A joint effort by Microsoft and Microsoft Research, it had been reported to be a possible commercial implementation of the OS Singularity, a research project begun in 2003 to build a highly dependable OS whose kernel, device drivers, and application software would all be written in managed code. It was designed for concurrency, and would run a program spread across multiple nodes at once.[1]
Joe Duffy also did a few presentations, on one of them (too lazy to search for the exact moment), he mentions that even with Midori running in front of them, the Windows team was very sceptical of it,
"RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy"
As other had said it is a huge leap forward. What is holding me back from using mac/linux as dev platform is that Visual Studio (proper, not code) is windows only. I would hate if I had to use vs code as my ide for c#. I am aware that ryder exists but haven't personally used it for more than a few short moments. IMHO opinion, if you you want to develop using c# you are best of using windows because of better tooling with linux as deployment target.
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