These last ten years I was really enjoying what Microsoft and its .NET teams were doing. Felt like a good community to be a part of. Huge strides to make things run anywhere and be more involved with the open source community.
While that hasn’t necessarily gone away, jamming LLM’s into everything is leaving a real sour taste. Pointless copilot button anywhere and everywhere. VS and VSCode pushing the GitHub copilot chats and agents.
We are quickly back to the corporate MSFT that doesn’t listen to its users or employees. All that good will has been washed away and now I feel the need to switch off of Windows.
There aren’t many examples, but one that comes to mind is the adaptive controller. It’s not cheap, but it’s also presumably low volume, and it’s unbelievably configurable.
Outside of that, I’m out of ideas. Usually every good change comes in response to user backlash, from my experience anyway. I’ve moved over to Linux by now because I’m tired of dealing with what Windows has become.