# Microsoft's changing platform support and the challenges for managed developers

DevFeed: [Microsoft's changing platform support and the challenges for managed developers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-perspective-managed-developers-beyond-microsoft-32986.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/perspective-managed-developers-beyond-microsoft/>)

Published: 2013-05-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>), [deprecated](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deprecated.md>), [Maintainability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintainability.md>), [Visual Basic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/visual-basic.md>)

Tags: [deprecated](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deprecated.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [maintainability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintainability.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses how Microsoft's platform changes and deprecations affected managed developers. It considers the continued operation of Silverlight applications, the persistence of Visual Basic 6 and MFC applications, and the long-term maintainability problems created by outdated systems and limited tooling updates.

## Source excerpt

In my last post, I talked a bit about how Microsoft's fixation on Metro/Modern and the appstore had resulted in it basically ignoring large swathes of its developer community. So that post got a lot more attention than I was expecting, with some agreeing and others disagreeing. Some discussions however took a turn where people began debating how much trouble, if any, developers were in with Microsoft's move. This was something that I had decided not to explore further because the previous post had already reached a fairly ridiculous length.