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There are not many companies which I’ve grown to immensely dislike over the years like Microsoft

… There are not many companies which I’ve grown to immensely dislike over the years like Microsoft. I started my career as a .NET developer and huge fan of their products, buying into all their crap from all the way from Silverlight to Windows Phone, WPF and even owned a Surface Pro 3 tablet/laptop but today there is really rarely a company that makes me reck as much as Microsoft with their product announcements. My opinion of this company couldn’t be any lower and I hugely judge any developer working in Windows. I know I shouldn’t but I can’t help myself that unless they are a game developer there is objectively speaking absolutely no reason for a developer to work on a Surface device or Windows.

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caplHN

Same here. Once worked with a guy who was a huge Microsoft fan, calling Macs and Linux-based workstations “nothing but toys”. Naturally I couldn’t help but laugh when he couldn’t work for 20 minutes due to a forced windows update and then a blue screen after booting up again. The Candy crush and other crappy apps/games in combination to being a full fledged spyware OS with adware on top is already enough to make me run away screaming.

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pjmlpHN

Macs are too damm expensive, don't really offer dollar per CPU/GPU/GB, and I am tired that there is always something that doesn't work with Pinguin OSes since 1995, even though I also admin UNIX boxes as part of the many hats I wear. Android and Chrome OS aren't really a replacement for desktop OSes, and Google is even worse in spying users anyway.

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talldayoHN

> there is objectively speaking absolutely no reason for a developer to work on a Surface device or Windows. So uuh... where are you shipping software then?

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