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by ClumsyPilot 2432 days ago
I am not. Microsoft was always a partner driven company. Most of their sales are through their partners, and they have learned to respect that.

They have also learned to build platform, unlike MacOS/Android, windows will never pull APIs out form under you.

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And windows basically sucks, in no small part due to the historical baggage it must carry. That and it’s not nix
That's a very narrow view.

Supporting historical baggage is why a lot of business people trust Windows.

Eg. You can still run VB 6 applications :p

True, but an operating system should be a solid foundation to build on, not quicksand.

We now have a situation where a well designed and complete 5 year old application will arbitrarily stop working because someone made an 'improvement' to the OS.