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I think .NET is one of the few projects Microsoft maintains that I admire that feel like they care a lot about quality, you can tell the people working on it are focused on performance and making sure its really well rounded. I would argue that .NET is Microsoft's greatest achievement / work of all time.


.NET has viable competitors. Windows, due to its monopoly, dominates the PC world no matter how bad it is.


Yeah but it is arguably not well done as described, it has strengths but they have been on a downward spiral of marketing driven development.


Because of legacy and momentum, not merit.


Yes, due to its monopoly. Edited my comment.


MS has had very little to do with the execution, but it has their logo on it, so I think you can count most Microsoft hardware (pre-Copilot button) as quality.


Agreed.

SQL Server is of equally high quality.

We just have postgres in the open source world (which is truly exceptional) so our expectations are higher.

I am the first to hate on Microsoft, their OS is a dumpster fire that I feel is forced on me. But sometimes they knock it out of the park.


Thats a solid callout. Not everyones favorite but honestly I never have insane issues when I work with it, nothing out of the ordinary anyway.




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