[dvt]

The weirdest thing about this (which is frankly bizarre) is Microsoft emphatically shilling React Native for MacOS[1] usage (???). Like, wtf? Why? Not only is it embarassing for MS to be using another competing company's (Facebook's) UI layer when they're, you know, an operating system company. But they're also pushing it for competing operating systems. What idiotic PM signed off on this? How in the world does Microsoft benefit out of promulgating Facebook's technology?

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-macos/docs/intro

[chabska]

Windows has like 5 UI kits concurrently built into it. It very well be that one UI kit PM is promoting react native to attack another UI kit team.

[layer8]

Microsoft decided to move to be a cloud services company instead of an operating system company. The operating system is merely a convenient means to acquiring new service subscriptions.

[dvt]

I mean, you could say the same thing about Apple, but they're extremely protective of their ecosystem and native capabilities.

[layer8]

Apple is a hardware company and likes to have control over the whole user experience. Microsoft doesn’t care about the experience as long as they can sell subscriptions, and doesn’t care much about hardware either.