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Re:Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still pr... by Razengan on Monday July 29, 2019 @03:36PM (#20558513)
> They could have replaced Apple as the darling of developers

Hardly, from my perspective, but do you have sources for that claim, or for Apple formerly being the "darling" for that matter?

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Re:Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still pr... by nawgszy on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:20PM (#20559585)
If one speaks from a Silicon Valley perspective, they call Apple a developer darling because it seems like every developer has an Apple laptop
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Re:Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still pr... by cameronbrown on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:46PM (#20559797)
True, but Apple has a huge developer fan base whereas Microsoft didn't until very recently, and that's only due to their massive course correction with WSL, VSCode, among others.
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Re:Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still pr... by jodrellblank on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:41PM (#20561969)
Microsoft, the largest software company with the most-used OS by businesses, most popular pc gaming platform and Xbox, maker of visual studio - The standard dev tool on windows, the biggest java competitor, one of the big SQL engines, one of the big web servers, has had a huge developer fan base since long before Ballmer’s famous “developers” presentation.

Much much bigger than Apple by having much much more marketshare of everything except smartphones.

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