Windows GUI strategy

I’ve been trying to get up to speed with the history of Windows development tools since 1994 when VB3 and Delphi were still a thing. Found this blog post pretty interesting summarising the more recent history:

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03/13/microsoft-hasnt-had-a-coherent-gui-strategy-since-petzold/

Thurrott