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Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They’re switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.

Without Builders, you don’t have software, and without software, you don’t have users. This is why Microsoft needs Windows Lite.

  • 79WistfulVista@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    .NET Framework specifically - yeah. That’s on life support. .NET Core is likely to be around for a long time. I spent the last few years at my former employer working on transitioning our server-side business layer components to .NET Core so they could run in Linux containers. Someone else got to deal with the Kubernetes aspect - thank goodness.

    Now I usually avoid thinking about any of that. (Oops.)

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      .NET Core is likely to be around for a long time.

      You wish.

      I spent the last few years at my former employer working on transitioning our server-side business layer components to .NET Core so they could run in Linux containers. Someone else got to deal with the Kubernetes aspect - thank goodness.

      Why bother? Just to keep paying MS?

    • folekaule@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Good call. I’m getting mired in the k8s side right now and we have dozens of small web apps that need upgraded and a couple beefier framework apps that need essentially rewritten. Unfortunately I can’t escape lol.

      We an ecosystem I overall like .net core and I agree it will stick around. I just can’t wait to get off IIS and into Linux even if that means complicating things with kubernetes.