That's interesting, as Windows developers have always been very happy with just Visual Studio, C# and WinForms, and now Windows is becoming less horrible for people used to POSIX.
It does look a bit like Apple and Microsoft are on a road to switching their attitudes and roles. Who knows.
Yes, my Windows experience goes back to Windows 3.1 and I think Windows NT architecture is quite good versus traditional UNIX ones, specially when one bothers to read all relevant documentation like the Windows Internals book series.
Lack of POSIX support only bothers me when trying to compile software targeted to pure UNIX systems.
It does look a bit like Apple and Microsoft are on a road to switching their attitudes and roles. Who knows.