The normal person working with a computer is not a developer. Most of the jobs would be heavily influenced by the microsoft suite.
Microsoft in denmark is very popular, thanks to their amazing marketing team targeting corporates. Therefore this research just shows that closed source microsoft products do not work 20% of time.
I observed the same thing. Microsoft is the company who cares about developers more.
I can tell my odd experience about Microsoft: my company reverse engineered many of its products and offered APIs around products without APIs. One day someone from QA sent us an e-mail offering help if some of these products have issues with Windows 7!
I am not worried about microsoft stopping developing it, i am worried about microsoft putting companies out of business using free products, which they then use to cross sell their closed source ides and as a marketing tool. If they are so open source friendly why dont they open source their visual studio, or windows, at least the older eol versions - so we can learn something out of their code, as per open source’s principles?
That’s right. Because they don’t care. They want a marketing product, dumped and aimed at commercial ide developers. VSCode is a free product, with the source code made available and developed by people for free, and for the benefit of microsoft.
Almost every windows dev I know (and I know many, owing to being a .NET dev professionally prior to Django/Python) are ignorant of anything that doesn't come from Redmond.
It'd be wasted effort, and the communities are smart enough to know that.
Not only that, but in the case of MSVC/Visual Studio you have a talent feedback loop as well as a financial one. They need people to be pirating it or they'll have no windows developers in the future.
> No exposure to Microsoft code or reverse-engineering of Microsoft software
Ref https://www.codeweavers.com/about/jobs
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