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Disclosure: I work at MS but not on the kernel or anything related to this security bug. Opinions are my own.

I've seen one-line bug fixes introduce many other bugs.

Adding a null check is always suspicious. Is the system in an invalid state? Should it fail fast instead of swallowing the error?

Maybe the code wasn't touched in several years. Maybe the person that wrote it no longer works there. Maybe the code in question doesn't have good test coverage or documentation. There are so many variables to consider when assessing risk of code changes.

Because of the productivity benefits of using public tools instead of internal ones. Devs are more familiar with them, more documentation and examples, morale benefit because skills are transferable to other jobs, etc.

It works fine. We have really good code search tools.

The numbers include test code, utilities, two entire web browsers, UI frameworks, etc.

Apple uses grayscale font rendering too, not even pixel aligned. It looks nice because all of their devices are high DPI.

Font rendering was improved in the Anniversary update. It should use ClearType in most cases on landscape monitors with 100% DPI.

Opens instantly for me.

Many of the built-in Windows 10 apps are written in C#.

I don't understand why it's even controversial to call this a Muslim ban. It's a ban on people from Muslim majority countries, except for religious minorities in those countries.

This is not the only issue people are protesting.

Debating with sophomores is about as fruitful as debating with holocaust deniers.

So your argument is that if you didn't do what was right before, you shouldn't do what's right now?

By any reasonable human being's standard.

The electoral college was created in part to prevent unqualified candidates from becoming president. It failed spectacularly.