[naasking]

> Are they going to ship an official cross platform UI library any time the next century?

So because they haven't produced your pet project means they haven't changed?

> Aren't almost all of their contributions for integration with their proprietary technology?

No. They didn't have to make .NET cross platform and run equally well on Linux, they didn't have to join the Linux foundation and make contributions to the Linux kernel. There are hundreds if not thousands of examples like this that would have been unthinkable under Gates and Balmer Microsoft.

> Windows 11 meanwhile makes me wait for them to add a robotic arm with a knife as hardware requirement, to improve the backstabbing experience.

Microsoft is much, much larger than just Windows. You seem to have a very limited understanding of everything they do.

[josefx]

> So because they haven't produced your pet project means they haven't changed?

Good to know that their flagship cross platform framework not even having an UI component rates "pet project".

> No. They didn't have to make .NET cross platform and run equally well on Linux

Which they never did, instead they renamed .Net core, which to this day isn't a feature complete replacement for .Net.

> they didn't have to join the Linux foundation and make contributions to the Linux kernel.

Given that they sell cloud products with Linux integration, yes they did?

> Microsoft is much, much larger than just Windows.

And here I thought everything they do is compensation for being tiny, I mean it is literally in the name.