Besides third party distributions, Microsoft now has three flavours of their own as well.
Azure Sphere OS, CBL-Mariner, then their Android flavours (althought it isn't really Linux) and RTOS like Azure RTOS.
Still owns the desktop, but since the internal political wars for the ultimate GUI framework started, I have started to doubt where it will all end.
Any more info about this?
Then in what concerns XAML, MAUI uses the one from Xamarin, instead of adopting the one from WinUI/UWP.
WinUI 3.0 is supposed to be the future, but has so many bugs and missing features, that Windows 11 is actually using WinUI 2.7 with UWP still.
All of those UIs catering for developer attention, makeing their point why their framework and not the one from another group.
Safest bets now are to stay with Win32, Forms/WPF or go Web.
I found it jaw-dropping how badly Microsoft handled that release. In some cases, the best way to improve multithreaded performance under Windows was to disable three quarters of the cores. Meanwhile any decent Linux distro scaled to the full core count out of the box.
I wonder to what extent this is holding back computer architecture. Certainly the Wintel cartel has historically back competition from other architectures, but even within x86-land we can see the monopoly power and technical inadequacy of Windows holding back innovation.
Linux supports every architecture known to man. Microsoft pretty much only supports x86. They have no excuse.
1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-pro...
It is a shame that many sites didn't behaved like this when Threadripper was launched and basically said that the architecture was inefficient at using so many cores or the software simply was not ready yet. Phoronix was one of the few which did it right.