"I looked at the presenter like they had a rat’s tail hanging out of his mouth for the entire hour."

Could have been Ballmer getting a quick snack in before anger-presentation.

At this point I don't get why they don't open source Windows and developer tools, make a foundation to steer the code, accept contributions and borrow ideas from other operating systems.

Honorable Mention: Lazarus

WPF marked the end of well thought-out UI’s and standards. It’s been web-inspired slop ever since.

funny thing is, with AI, it's become really easy to put win32 apps together, and they load fast and are super responsive!

Every year the same debate, every year the same Microslop apologists in the comments, every year nothing ever changes, every year Microslop's market cap keeps groing, every year the same problems

Microslop should have been dismantled decades ago, it's now too late, we need a paradigm shift so that Microsoft no longer affects our society

Here's how I think Microsoft can get a quick and sustained longterm win in GUI (/s but only partially) -

1. Drop all its GUI stacks apart from legacy Win32

2. Port KDE Plasma to Windows (with aliased bindings to support traditional explorer.exe calls so as to not break user apps)

That's it. There really aren't many significant apps that use the rest of Microsoft's stack apart from Win32 that won't recover from this, and Microsoft itself will just see a massive drop in its own costs with a massive rise in user satisfaction.

s/\sGUI\s/\s/g

OLE objects are just like disk images.