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Is it what the populace wants?

Well, given that there's been little to no innovation in native Windows applications in the past five years, I think it's fair to say the populace doesn't want the status quo.

Microsoft has to do something. I don't like what they chose to do (I worked on Win8 for a while before quitting, in part because of their direction), but it's clear to me that they had to take some risks or be faced with an inevitable slow obsolescence.



Maybe desktop computing is a solved problem and we don't need more native apps for Windows, and we can enjoy teaching fruits of decades of labor.




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