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.NET has won the war over the desktop in what concerns native applications for Windows on the big corporations.

On all enterprise customers that we work with, think DAX, if the application is to run native on the desktop, which is usually means Windows workstations, the software stack tends to be .NET with some C++ here and there.

Sun never managed to understand the desktop and Oracle even less.

So unless the customer has requirements for portable desktop applications, the solution is .NET.

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Totally clear that mainstream desktop is Windows, native and .NET but the question again and since there are rarely new apps on Windows: who is actively developing new desktop apps in C#, .NET on Windows which are not games?

A lot of financial institutions use .NET for in-house desktop apps.

>who is actively developing new desktop apps in C#, .NET on Windows which are not games?

Almost everybody doing in-house enterprise desktop apps (and those are a heck of a lot) and tons of people doing desktop Windows apps that don't need to be C++ (e.g. not Photoshop, Office and co).

Again, those are in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Check any Windows app review site or repo for examples.

We write a lot of desktop apps in-house.

It is _massively_ faster to write a quick UI in .Net than it is to write one in HTML.

How come there are rarely new apps on Windows?

I have been doing WPF development in the last two years for enterprise customers.

Also as a Windows user, there are plenty of applications to choose from.

Ticketmaster, bet365, MoonPig, Sky TV, LateRooms.

I just made one today. Took me about two hours to make a simple app for reviewing ~GB sized slides from digital microscope. I haven't written any in the past 5 years, though. I'm still blown away by how much more efficient I'm with Windows Forms compared to anything on the web.

There is a lot of code being written outside of your bubble. I don't mean that in a negative way; we all have our own bubble, but you have to appreciate that what you're into does not represent the industry as a whole.

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