If you're saying that Microsoft (still) isn't owning up to the massive amount of brokenness they're recently churning out, I could believe that as well.
> GO: windows has become terrible for developers and this AI focus makes it worse
> PD: we listen to feedback, people want reliability etc. we care deeply about developers. we know we have to improve on [things which you didn't bring up at all]. we will continue improving.
... I honestly don't think I need to explain why they got ratio'd.
> windows has become terrible for developers and this AI focus makes it worse
Except it's not totally terrible. What makes it terrible is the privacy invasions and the consent issues Microsoft has with its users, along with long standing bugs in W11.
The other hand of Microsoft is actually putting a lot of convenient stuff in for developers. WSL w/ graphics support, Windows Terminal is nice (and is getting some nice features they just showed off at ignite), native git integration is coming to file explorer, PowerToys has some really great utilities, and making your own extensions for command palette is dead easy.
There's even a macOS preview-like utility for file explorer now, sudo, native SSH, winget (which can be automated with a simple yaml file to automate a new box setup using DSC), etc.
It's the classic Microsoft org chart problem where each is in their own bubble pointing guns at each other.
Windows could objectively be the best OS for developers, easily, if Microsoft cared enough to make it so. Their surface hardware isn't bad either, and the surface laptop is the only windows laptop on the market with a trackpad that's anywhere close to Apple's.
That's what makes Microsoft so frustrating lately. I used to like Windows, I want to like it and use it again, but Microsoft keeps shooting themselves in the foot over and over again, screwing everyone over in the process.
If you're saying that Microsoft (still) isn't owning up to the massive amount of brokenness they're recently churning out, I could believe that as well.
so to paraphrase:
> GO: windows has become terrible for developers and this AI focus makes it worse
> PD: we listen to feedback, people want reliability etc. we care deeply about developers. we know we have to improve on [things which you didn't bring up at all]. we will continue improving.
... I honestly don't think I need to explain why they got ratio'd.
> windows has become terrible for developers and this AI focus makes it worse
Except it's not totally terrible. What makes it terrible is the privacy invasions and the consent issues Microsoft has with its users, along with long standing bugs in W11.
The other hand of Microsoft is actually putting a lot of convenient stuff in for developers. WSL w/ graphics support, Windows Terminal is nice (and is getting some nice features they just showed off at ignite), native git integration is coming to file explorer, PowerToys has some really great utilities, and making your own extensions for command palette is dead easy.
There's even a macOS preview-like utility for file explorer now, sudo, native SSH, winget (which can be automated with a simple yaml file to automate a new box setup using DSC), etc.
It's the classic Microsoft org chart problem where each is in their own bubble pointing guns at each other.
Windows could objectively be the best OS for developers, easily, if Microsoft cared enough to make it so. Their surface hardware isn't bad either, and the surface laptop is the only windows laptop on the market with a trackpad that's anywhere close to Apple's.
That's what makes Microsoft so frustrating lately. I used to like Windows, I want to like it and use it again, but Microsoft keeps shooting themselves in the foot over and over again, screwing everyone over in the process.