In the fifth paragraph: "But this is a new Microsoft". They are acknowledging that they made mistakes in the past due to which the missed out big on the server

In the fifth paragraph: "But this is a new Microsoft". They are acknowledging that they made mistakes in the past due to which the missed out big on the server market. As much as .NET is popular, it would have been a lot more popular (vs Java ecosystem) if they were OSS from the beginning. As primarily a Java developer, C# seems more elegant to code in. As they say - the first step to fixing a problem is admitting that you have a problem.