[Info-vax] Microsoft (was: Re: Taking a break - Open Source on OpenVMS Conference Calls Resume)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/5/2022 5:32 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> As for Microsoft UIs, UWP came and went, and Windows App SDK is the UI 
> plan now, and there will undoubtedly be other new choices. But—outside 
> of those needing app portability—I doubt it'll be Wayland with whatever 
> app toolkit being the choice for most.

MS UI is a big mess.

Originally it was Win32 API.

Then came MFC.

Then came WinForms for .NET.

Then came WPF for .NET (incl. SL).

Then came Metro / Modern UI / UWP / Windows Store app / MS Store app
that was based on WinRT which is an extension of COM (IUnknown
and IInspectable) but with .NET meta data.

And now we got Xamarin/MAUI which is back to .NET.

> More generally, Microsoft has been transitioning to Azure and to hosting 
> services, as that's where they clearly believe the market is going and 
> where the growth is. They want to host and manage, well, everything. 
> Including with Azure AD, and the rest.
> 
> There are folks posting here—here, in usenet—that might not like or 
> might not use hosting, but there are a whole lot of other folks that can 
> and do use hosting, and that hosting market is consolidating toward AWS, 
> GCP, and Azure.

Some years ago there were a prediction that 90% of server workload
would move to public cloud. Right now that predictions looks to
be on track to become reality!

Arne