Genuinely curious what Microsoft products people actually like? VS code might be the only one I’ve ever heard of.

Windows Terminal (despite the drama with its devs) is actually pretty good.

PowerShell is excellent as a scripting language, and has deservedly been a huge influence on shells which have come after it.

WSL is extremely frustrating because it has so many bugs and gotchas, but I'd say it's pretty popular with its intended audience.

> WSL is extremely frustrating because it has so many bugs and gotchas, but I'd say it's pretty popular with its intended audience.

I understand why WSL2 is now just a HyperV'd Linux, but WSL1 is amazing despite its limitations. I'm honestly hoping that they re-consider deploying a properly-developed Unix personality again, but that ship has sailed.

> I'm honestly hoping that they re-consider deploying a properly-developed Unix personality again, but that ship has sailed.

Agreed. WSL1 was incredibly ambitious, and that alone made it exciting. And what it does manage to do, even in its unfinished state, is also impressive in its own right.

(FWIW, I actually had WSL2 in mind when I was talking about bugs. Switching to a VM-based approach solved some compatibility issues but WSL2 definitely still has problem.)

I was asked to be a developer on powershell when it was still unreleased. Regret does not begin to cover it.

Direct X, Office (esp Word and Excel), Outlook, OneNote, XBox, Surface, Visual Studio, VS Code, C#, F#, Windows 7 and 10, SkiFree...

I've just came up with two more: Solitaire and Minesweeper.

People love this programs so much that MS added them to their dreaded Teams. Now you can have truly productive meetings!

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/16/23462041/microsoft-teams...

It's always fun to walk to a user's desktop and hit Win-G (Windows Xbox Game Bar)

TypeScript

TS is more in the "mixed feelings" department, imho.

I would take Scala.js anytime instead. (If I would need to do front-end ever again).

https://www.scala-js.org/

Not really "products". But the stuff coming out of MS Research is mostly great!

But granted, MS Research is not M$…

Excel

Excel is brilliant.

ToDo

Clippy ?

Clippy's not dead.

https://www.slashgear.com/1102367/microsoft-is-reviving-clip...

Windows.

I said it'd be foolish, not that they wouldn't do it :D