Microsoft has been revamping Windows to make it more attractive to developers. What has it done, and why? Not so long ago, Windows was doomed. Developers were buying Apple hardware, with every tech conference keynote illuminated by hundreds of glowing Apple logos. It wasn’t surprising: under the hood, macOS was a derivative of BSD Unix, allowing developers to quickly build the same toolchains on their laptops as ran on their servers or in the cloud.
Link: How Microsoft is making Windows a better developer platform
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