Years ago, when MS was thick in the anti-trust contentions, pops and I agreed that were they to break up, it would be great to have one segment be "tools." MS

Years ago, when MS was thick in the anti-trust contentions, pops and I agreed that were they to break up, it would be great to have one segment be "tools." MS has long had and offered some great programming support -- compilers, development environments, etc. However, with monolithic MS, those too often seem tied to and influenced by the larger corporation's goals. You know, world dominance, crushing the opposition, and all that. I hope that this new push by MS is genuine and does not morph into another embrace, extend, and -- purposefully or simply inevitably -- extinguish effort. I'm not in the thick of it. This is probably an outdated and way far outside observation. Nonetheless, MS support still leaves me looking for the strings attached.