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Re:Confidential Microsoft brief: 'We're toast if we fight Go... by Retric on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @11:28AM (#6052504)
I think your missing the point. "It just works" is a huge selling point.
Re:Confidential Microsoft brief: 'We're toast if we fight Go... by away_thrown on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @03:02PM (#6054025)
At best you can "it just works if you already know it well"; having done Windows development at three separate jobs, I still find it fiddly to get a dev environment working on Windows.

If everything in the MS ecosystem "just works" then I am either willfully overlooking its great features or like so much else, it's a function of what you know best.

There's little to gain by switching to another OS if you have enough money for licenses and you know its ecosystem well.