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by pjmlp 777 days ago
> At Microsoft, we believe in the value of using our own products, a practice often referred to as "dogfooding".

One would think, unfortunely that is not how it looks like in the zoo of native Windows desktop development, or Xamarin/MAUI adoption in their mobile apps.

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Windows is dog fooding _all_ the native app development options simultaneously.
Dogfooding doesn't mean write everything from scratch as soon as something new comes up.
It must be a new policy, or maybe only for this product (which makes good marketing).

I've used Microsoft Graph to manage emails, and I'd be very surprised if they use if for Outlook...

Even during Windows 95 it was an old established policy https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051116-12/?p=33...
dogfooding has been a thing at MS probably since its inception. Of course it doesn't mean it is always practiced fully.