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by nerdywordy 1198 days ago
RE: Microsoft

1) MSFT has already used React for far longer than 2 years.

2) They have basically never used the technologies you mentioned (WPF, Silverlight, WinUI). They offer them as UI toolkits that run in their Windows environment and that’s it. Their failure to market and support these technologies is independent of what they do for their own development strategy.

3) They bought GitHub and effectively own electron now. Many of their biggest apps are on electron (Teams, VS Code, Azure Data Studio).
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unxdfa 1198 days ago
1. Correct.

2. Yes they have. Half their developer tools were rewritten in WPF, they offered huge stacks including CRM on top of Silverlight and a huge chunk of windows 11 front end is WinUI.

3. Teams fucking sucks. VS Code is heading in the same direction. I've never used Azure Data Studio.

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josephg 1197 days ago
> Many of their biggest apps are on electron (Teams, VS Code, Azure Data Studio).

Huh? Those are Microsoft's biggest apps? Not, MS Word, the NT Kernel or ... windows 11? The XBox operating system project? Outlook express? Visual Studio? ... Github?

I'll grant that Electron is used by a few teams at microsoft. But I'd be surprised if even 1% of microsoft's engineers worked on products built with electron.

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