Microsoft feels like the new Apple to me.<p>I haven&#x27;t used Apple&#x27;s product in Jobs&#x27; era, but I&#x27;ve heard a lot of good stories about how solid and easy-to-use their software was. Now I&#x27;m on Yosemite, experiencing annoying bugs and unexpected quits&#x2F;freezes on a daily basis. I don&#x27;t even dare to update to El Capitan. Yesterday I upgraded to XCode 7.0.1, and all my swift projects failed to compile. If it&#x27;s not for the touchpad and screen I&#x27;d rather go back to my Arch Linux laptop.<p>Apple isn&#x27;t bringing any more surprise or delight to me hardware-wise. And their software quality is declining day-by-day. Development wise, just take a look at XCode&#x27;s newest reviews to learn how bad the dev experience is. Developers are what makes a platform succeed, and Apple doesn&#x27;t seem to realize that.<p>However, MS has been amazing since Nadella. My favorite news is open sourcing .NET and making it available for Linux. VSCode is also solid and even feels more polished than Atom to me. Hololens looks cool. Surface definitely lives up to its hype.<p>Last week I interviewed with MS. At the end I asked about the interviewer&#x27;s opinion on MS&#x27;s change and attitude to Open Source, and in his response he had this line: &quot;Because Open Source is the future&quot;. I can hardly imagine a MS staff in pre-Nadella era would have such opinions. MS has changed. I think people should put down their prejudice about MS&#x27;s past and admit that. Going to Redmond next Wed for an onsite. Wish myself good luck.