Microsoft engineers respond to claims that “Win10 / Win11 are not suitable for development”, stating that the developer community of Windows exceeds that of macOS and Linux
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Entrepreneur Michael Chomsky posted on the X platform, saying, "Life is short, why waste time on Windows users in [application development]?" Fowler, who worked at Microsoft for over 18 years, responded that this is just a clickbait headline. In fact, the number of developers using Windows exceeds that of any other operating system. IT cites a 2025 developer survey by Stack Overflow which shows that Windows is the most popular operating system among professional developers, accounting for 49.5%, macOS accounts for 32.9%, Ubuntu accounts for 27.7%, WSL accounts for 16.8%, and Windows (developers outside of WSL environments) account for 16.7%.
Entrepreneur Michael Chomsky ( Michael Chomsky ) posted a tweet on the X platform yesterday, saying: "Life is short, why waste time on [application development] with Windows users?" Before this article was published by IT, the tweet had been viewed over 27,000 times.
Fowler, who has worked at Microsoft for over 18 years, refutes the above观点, stating: "This is just a clickbait headline. In fact, the number of developers using Windows is larger than that of any other operating system." Windows covers enterprise office work, NET, C#, Visual Studio, and game development scenarios, among others, and the price range for related devices is also wider.
The media cited a 2025 developer survey by Stack Overflow which shows that Windows is the most commonly used operating system among professional developers, accounting for 49.5% (the percentages of each system do not add up to 100% as some developers use multiple systems). macOS accounts for 32.9%, Ubuntu accounts for 27.7%, WSL accounts for 16.8%, and Windows accounts for 16.7%. Outside of these environments, Linux accounts for 16.7%.
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