Microsoft has some of the worst developers in big tech. I worked with two principal engineers from Microsoft and I swore I would never work with anyone from Microsoft again.
I dislike microsoft irrationally, but I would find it hard to paint with such a broad brush.
Typescript & vscode are products microsoft produced and are beloved.
you can also find things in Windows that are just “better” than what we had in Linux land until very recently, namely IOCompletion Ports and the iSCSI stuff.