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What are your favorite Microsoft products?

Some Microsoft products/acquisitions that first come to mind are Windows, Edge, GitHub, VSCode, NPM, TypeScript, .NET, MS Server, Azure, LinkedIn, OneDrive, To Do, Skype, Office, Xbox and so on.

What are your favorites from Microsoft?

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Val++le

100% VSCode. TBH i use the VS Codium Version because i hate it if programms "call home". And i have a MS aversion. But hey VSCode is really good!
I drop intellij and eclipse for it and hey its a electron app and i am dev electron apps with it:D

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Pontakorn Paesaeng

Visual Studio Code for sure. I started using and it's great. It's middle ground between complete IDE and text editor.

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Hrishi Mittal

MS Access - the version around 2006. That’s where I really learnt to program (VBA).

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Arturs Smirnovs

GitHub, LinkedIn.. :)

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Adrian Emil Grigore

Windows Subsystem for Linux 😝

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Edertxo

WSL :)

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Kevin Kivi

TypeScript. VSCode is good. Best noobie friendly editor. I added Vim extension to VSCode. Nowadays I just rock Vim with CoC to make Vim like VSCode. Best of both worlds!

Unless I'm doing a oneliner or some simple CLI app, I will always prefer TypeScript over js.

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Vitor Paladini

SkiFree, hands down

ski free

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Madza

Hahah, you guys know all the classics 😃😃

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AxelleDRouge

TypeScript and VSCode <3 yes they really make my like simpler ! WSL is great too but I don't use it that often

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Louis Low

LinkedIn, Github (all-time-favorite GIT), and NPM (I didn't know NPM was acquired by Microsoft, until this post).

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Judith

VSCode, the linux subsystem (now that they fixed it), Azure (which basically encompasses everything), .NET Core, etc. I also am part of the Windows Insider Program which is a good way to explore new features in beta.

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Boris Krstić

VS Code (as everybody else) and Azure DevOps. It turned out that I am obsessed with automating processes.

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Heiker

windows 98 Paint

'nuff said.

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Ishaan Sheikh

Classic.

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Rob OLeary

I don't think MS realised how popular it was until they announced that they would be discontinuing it, and then an uproar followed!

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Pike Msonda

VSCode, OneDrive and new Edge is great.
I hardly ever open Chrome and next month it is coming to Linux, looking forward to that.

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Ishaan Sheikh

VS Code, Windows, Office, Dynamics CRM, and C# (if it is a product).