While I can think of a few other, dotnet and Visual Studio, I think that you're generally correct.

Microsoft, Google and others, have created a culture that are no longer able to produce high quality solutions, because they can't focus on a single vision for their products. Or in some cases the vision does not align with creating good products.

SQL Server is a really good example, it's highly focused, it exists outside the current hype bobble, there's no advertising, no subscription, just a database server and it's a really good product. Exchange sucks, because it been pulled in to new subscription based world, and it's going to suffer for it.

Famously, visual studio gets worse- not better, with time.

https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U

I would like to retro-actively remove my categorization of Visual Studio. That was an absolutely enjoyable rant and demonstration.

Well, it gets better and worse, with a worsening trend. It's not monotonic, so one can easily point "hey, VS XX is better than VS YY for some XX > YY".

dotnet is a mixed bag of good and bad.

VSCode catch on, but i would rather have Atom instead.

Exchange have beth broken before migrating to cod

> migrating to cod

cod? Call of Duty?

The topic is good software and you mention Visual Studio?