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Re:Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster by giancarlostoro on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:33AM (#46393588)
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.
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Re:Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster by skeeter2020 on Friday December 26, 2025 @12:16PM (#46394041)
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.
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Re:Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster by SoftTalker on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:43AM (#46393695)
.NET has viable competitors. Windows, due to its monopoly, dominates the PC world no matter how bad it is.
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Re:Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster by malux85 on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:57AM (#46393827)
Because of legacy and momentum, not merit.
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Re:Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster by SoftTalker on Friday December 26, 2025 @12:14PM (#46394010)
Yes, due to its monopoly. Edited my comment.
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Re:Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster by giancarlostoro on Friday December 26, 2025 @04:21PM (#46396400)
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.
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Re:Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster by dijit on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:38AM (#46393632)
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.

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Re:Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster by giancarlostoro on Friday December 26, 2025 @04:21PM (#46396406)
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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