Comment by pjmlp
6 hours ago
Why do you think Windows is currently such a mess?
Microsoft new blood has been educated on Macs and ChromeOS, even if they do games it is most likely consoles.
On WinUI community calls you usually would get puzzled faces when the Q&A touched when would WinUI be able to do "insert basic Win32/Forms/WPF" feature.
Management apparently doesn't care they actually understand Windows, or get the required trainings to meet the quality of their predecessors.
That is how you get Webview2 all over the place.
>Why do you think Windows is currently such a mess?
There have been some writings and posts here about Microsoft. Here is one from last spring, from a guy that was long time Windows core developer and moved to Azure group. It's well worth reading, what he writes about challenges they have had and most likely still have if not even worse now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242
And from what I've understood old chaps like Dave Cutler are involved much less than they were for a very long time.
I have read that, yeah it also shows a lot how things changed.
As per his interview on Dave's Garage, besides being of an age where he really doesn't need to work, at the time he was involved on getting Linux running on XBox on Azure, apparently Microsoft uses idle consoles from XBox Cloud for AI.
https://youtu.be/xi1Lq79mLeE?t=10743
i fear the times when the chip makers change their architectures and the OS makers have to change the inner working of their OSes but then again, I guess there is an equivalent in the chip-making industry as well