[com2kid]

For decades MS had the best development environments, best training, and best documentation.

MS fucked it up with the wpf->silver light->winrt transitions.

Win32 is a horrible API but it was stable and there was a time Win32 developers were everywhere.

Visual Studio is still one of the best real IDEs out there. The tooling for modern languages is a sad joke compared to what we had in 2005. And modern documentation is so bad it is absurd. People don't realize how much $$$ MS used to spend on sample code (MSDN samples were large fleshed out sample products!) and on documentation teams.

Comparison point, last time I tried to use Google cloud, I had to use the way back machine to look at an old version of the docs because the embedded sample code had gotten broken during an update 2 years prior and no one ever fixed it.

[pjmlp]

You forgot another two major fuck ups, killing .NET Native and C++/CX, without a proper migration path to a GUI framewokr that is anyway WIP and will take a couple of years to even reach some kind of parity with WPF.

I still mostly use Microsoft technologies, but that was a big middle finger to everyone that was willing to go through all WinRT rewrites since Windows 8, advocating for the technology.