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Re:This isn't your father's Microsoft by Old_Thrashbarg on Saturday November 09, 2019 @12:22AM (#21489792)
The one thing that has persuaded me the most has been vscode.

Until switching to that, I had assumed Microsoft incapable of producing something with excellent design/UX. Also it's open source.

Opening Microsoft software every day on my Ubuntu machine and feeling grateful they made it has slowly chipped away at my anti-Microsoft stance.

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Re:This isn't your father's Microsoft by CGamesPlay on Saturday November 09, 2019 @12:32AM (#21489817)
Man, I have such fond memories of VC6. It was such a great debugging experience. And MSDN was absolutely the best documentation website I've used. I think Microsoft's developer tools have always been high quality.
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Re:This isn't your father's Microsoft by t-h-e-chief on Saturday November 09, 2019 @06:37AM (#21490922)
Agreed, they do have some of the best tooling. Damn, VB6 was one of the most amazing development environments ever made when you think about it - shame the language was so limited.

Still, I did prefer Borland Builder and do prefer Jetbrains Rider.

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