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Re:This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem by flohofwoe on Thursday December 02, 2021 @05:05AM (#29414359)
That was simply because the alternatives to Win32 had various serious regressions, be it usability, features, bloat, or other things that are important in one way or other to the people who stick with Win32.

More secure languages and APIs can only win if they are both easier to use and offer the same features.

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Re:This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem by pjmlp on Thursday December 02, 2021 @05:12AM (#29414404)
As proven by mobile OSes, it is not technical features that win the game, rather railing the developers into the future, regardless of their opinion.

The problem at Microsoft is that what Office and WinDev want, drives the whole business no matter what, those "serious regressions, be it usability, features, bloat, or other things" get fixed, if one cares enough to make it happen.

Speaking which, Office now is an heavy user of JavaScript, less perfomant than .NET, because it needs to be in the cloud.

Whereas Windows, while king of the desktop, is undeniable that it lost the backend to POSIX clones even if we consider MS shops with IIS, where languages like Java and Go dominate.

Also apparently PWAs are cool now as fight against ChromeOS, which from performance point of view are much worse than those former Win32 alternatives.

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