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They are the largest company by Market Cap. They're hardly out of touch with their users' needs. I use Windows 10 as my primary development system and it works great. Maybe you're out of touch?


Market cap has nothing to do with a company being in or out of touch with their users.


I think its a valid assumption that a company which is out of touch from their users will lose market cap soon enough


I disagree. The history of business is full of counterexamples to that.


Visual Studio is a great debugger and an "ok" editor. Step outside the GUI, though, and it is in my view a pile of unnecessary complexity.


A pile of unnecessary complexity? cough Javascript ecosystem cough

Seriously, though, I don't think you can avoid a lot of complexity if you build a product such as VS.


Did we forget illegally sabataging competition?




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