On the other hand, I've been programming in Windows since about the same time.
In the GUI front I had to work on Win32, MFC, WebForms, Silverlight, XAML and WinRT.
I've been trough two DirectX breaking upgrades where we had to rewrite pretty much everything that touched the API because of deprecations.
Sure, old things keep working for users, but if you stick with ancient technology it gets way too hard to hire developers.
I'm not complaining though: I love writing code and upgrading things is a breath of fresh air. Every Microsoft API was significantly better than the one preceding it, IMO.
I write Windows desktop app in WPF since December 2009 and I'm confident that I won't write them in anything else for at least the next 10 years (desktops are supposed to be dead by then but I hope the 'visionaries' are wrong.
In the GUI front I had to work on Win32, MFC, WebForms, Silverlight, XAML and WinRT.
I've been trough two DirectX breaking upgrades where we had to rewrite pretty much everything that touched the API because of deprecations.
Sure, old things keep working for users, but if you stick with ancient technology it gets way too hard to hire developers.
I'm not complaining though: I love writing code and upgrading things is a breath of fresh air. Every Microsoft API was significantly better than the one preceding it, IMO.