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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why doesn’t MS do what Apple does with Writing Tools. Put it Rewrite at the OS level so that anything with text can access the feature? Doing this an app at a time is odd.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because Windows doesn’t support OS-wide text formatting/manipulation like macOS does.

The system already existed in macOS so it was easy enough to plug writing tools into it, but to do the same in Windows would mean completely rewriting how Windows handles text display and editing (and no doubt causing an avalanche of compatibility issues with old apps).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Maybe windows should just fully embrace containers for as much backwards compatibility as possible.

https://github.com/dockur/windows

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Microsoft is in conflict with itself if web apps, modern native apps, or classic native apps are the future. That's why even different Microsoft applications feel as or even more disconnected from each other than using KDE applications under Gnome.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Because windows is a fucking mess 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Looks like MS still has the culture of don't-make-more-work-for-the-boss.