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by Arainach
1500 days ago
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Not surprising. There's always been some strong territorial elements in their culture. Many years ago, I want to say in the gap between Win7 and the start of Win8 (the last multi-month "milestone quality" for the Windows org) a senior colleague made a bunch of quality of life updates to Notepad. I've forgotten the specifics, but things in the same idea as a proper undo stack, better find/replace, some keyboard shortcuts, and so on. The version I was testing was quite nice, but the notepad owners caught wind of it and for whatever reason made the developer revert their change. At the time, maybe there was a stated reason like "our customers automate notepad and this could break their scripts", who knows (I didn't and don't), but it left a poor taste in everyone's mouth. I wonder how that engineer feels about Microsoft finally implementing most of their ideas a decade later in Win11. Occasionally these efforts get turned into PowerToys (I knew of an internal tool that was basically FancyZones many years before that was added to the suite), but I imagine many more are simply killed off and their authors punished or demotivated. |
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