content: No. I'm a developer using primarily Microsoft technologies (.NET/C#/Visual Studio) and their tools have been in my opinion best in the industry for years. Following the latest update the Visual Studio I've now been experiencing intermittent crashes even there. In about a decade of working with Microsoft development products, I've never had this happen. Their developer support is completely clueless and seeing somebody sign their message "Microsoft MVP" is more often than not now a good clue to just skip their 10 step copy/paste suggestion. Reportedly they were even injecting telemetry into compiled executables. I thought this was fear mongering since there are perfectly legit reasons for this (profiling, debugging, logging, etc) - turns out it wasn't for anything like this, shouldn't have been happening, and will supposedly be 'fixed' in a future update. No, this is something completely unprecedented. Microsoft is falling fast and hard. Very annoying because I do still think, recent stability issues aside, that their development tools, language, and environments are top notch.