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Why, and what exactly do you mean?
by elliotec 10y ago
Why, and what exactly do you mean?
- adventured 10y agoThe parent is probably having flashbacks to a time now long gone, in which Microsoft was widely regarded in tech circles as the evil empire. They would attempt to 'embrace and extend' potentially threatening (to them) technology that they didn't control, as a means to hijack or kill it. Many people - including internally at Microsoft - often called it: embrace, extend, extinguish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
- DoofusOfDeath 10y agoI don't know if Microsoft's management still considers E-E-E to be a viable strategy or not. However, even if they don't, I haven't seen any indication that they've repented of their past scummy tendencies. The Windows 10 rollout is perhaps the most obvious case in point. I'm curious if you've seen something that makes you more optimistic than I am.
- hansjorg 10y agoWhether or not you consider their actions evil, they were demonstrably an extremely destructive force, provenly using very untoward methods, much more so than most of their peers. It's mind boggling to consider how many years their shenanigans have probably set back computing as a field. As for trusting them now, I don't believe an organization like that can truly change in such a short time.
- elliotec 10y agoI'm not sure they can change fully in this short a time, but they've definitely demonstrated some healthy changes under Nadella, including "embracing" open source, VS code, proper handling of the Mojang acquisition, and others.
- hh2222 10y agoThey just bought Xamarin and killed Robovm.