Not surprising. There's always been some strong territorial elements in their culture.<p>Many years ago, I want to say in the gap between Win7 and the start of Win8 (the last multi-month "milestone quality" for the Windows org) a senior colleague made a bunch of quality of life updates to Notepad. I've forgotten the specifics, but things in the same idea as a proper undo stack, better find/replace, some keyboard shortcuts, and so on.<p>The version I was testing was quite nice, but the notepad owners caught wind of it and for whatever reason made the developer revert their change. At the time, maybe there was a stated reason like "our customers automate notepad and this could break their scripts", who knows (I didn't and don't), but it left a poor taste in everyone's mouth.<p>I wonder how that engineer feels about Microsoft finally implementing most of their ideas a decade later in Win11.<p>Occasionally these efforts get turned into PowerToys (I knew of an internal tool that was basically FancyZones many years before that was added to the suite), but I imagine many more are simply killed off and their authors punished or demotivated.