[travisgriggs]

This is starting to feel like the Windows platform post MFC/Win32.

Every couple years, it was a new initiative to get developers and the middle management deciders revved up. A sort of a “we’re building it so that you’ll come, right?” thing. And then a year or so later, a new initiative replaced it, the offering was dramatically watered down, or just altogether sunset’ed.

[cube00]

In their defence at least MFC/Win32 is still patched and supported even if it's not getting new features.

Although it's probably not the same because they don't have to run any physical hardware to keep it going like IoT Cloud needs.

[pjmlp]

You can still get new project templates on VS 2022, bugs get fixed, and little things like HDPI support added.

A very big difference with Google's offerings.