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Too soon?

reustle 10y ago
How so? They've been releasing a lot of projects as open source over the past few years, and they've been building some pretty cool hardware (Surface, etc). The new CEO does seem like he is pulling things in a better direction than before.
- noir_lord 10y ago
  vscode has rapidly replaced all other editors I use (still use intellij for everything programming though), its already good and it has the potential to be great, I'm excited about the .net stuff coming to Linux as I loved C# but have been on Linux as developer for well over a decade and the Surface Book is in strong contention for my next laptop. Given my opinion of them a decade ago they've gone a long way to fix it. I loved my 360, was the first time I realised Microsoft could do largely zero hassle devices if they wanted.
  - l3m0ndr0p 10y ago
    I'll never forgive MS when they cancelled my XBOX Live Account because they accused me of hacking the XBOX. Meanwhile, for 3 months My XBOX Live account was hacked - Credit Card info etc. was modified. MS LIve was hacked & it didn't make the headlines. I endured 3 months of trying to get back my account. When I did get it back, after 2 months, my account was shutdown. Reason - We found that you hacked your Account/XBOX live. What? really? I was able to prove all the purchases etc. SO FUCK YOU MS and FUCK the thousands of dollars on XBOX - XBOX 360 Purchases. As for the Windows 10, it's not bad, but there's something in the background of this and how they want you to move all of your shit onto the "cloud." Use your MSDN or outlook ID for a better experience. WTF. I don't trust them, never will. The OS is good for games though... I do like F# and visual studio. But too bad they don't have a Unix/Linux like su or sudo. Oh well. Fuck you Microsoft, with love and lube.
  - mikestew 10y ago
    I loved my 360, was the first time I realised Microsoft could do largely zero hassle devices if they wanted. Yeah, and then the "new Microsoft" gave us the Xbone (my complaints for which can be found elsewhere on HN), so I don't know that a ten year old console is the best basis for judgement.
pmontra 10y ago
Too soon. Among the others let's see how the current embracing of Ubuntu plays out.
- yarrel 10y ago
  Extend then extinguish.
  - pmontra 10y ago
    As soon as I see an extension to Ubuntu that works only on a Windows host I'll know that extinguish is on its way. Even Red Hat will suffer because it will mean that at least for somebody there will be some good reason to deploy Linux applications on a Windows host on Azure (or whatever), possibly interfacing other MS products.

Too soon?

How so? They've been releasing a lot of projects as open source over the past few years, and they've been building some pretty cool hardware (Surface, etc). The new CEO does seem like he is pulling things in a better direction than before.

noir_lord 10y ago
vscode has rapidly replaced all other editors I use (still use intellij for everything programming though), its already good and it has the potential to be great, I'm excited about the .net stuff coming to Linux as I loved C# but have been on Linux as developer for well over a decade and the Surface Book is in strong contention for my next laptop. Given my opinion of them a decade ago they've gone a long way to fix it. I loved my 360, was the first time I realised Microsoft could do largely zero hassle devices if they wanted.
- l3m0ndr0p 10y ago
  I'll never forgive MS when they cancelled my XBOX Live Account because they accused me of hacking the XBOX. Meanwhile, for 3 months My XBOX Live account was hacked - Credit Card info etc. was modified. MS LIve was hacked & it didn't make the headlines. I endured 3 months of trying to get back my account. When I did get it back, after 2 months, my account was shutdown. Reason - We found that you hacked your Account/XBOX live. What? really? I was able to prove all the purchases etc. SO FUCK YOU MS and FUCK the thousands of dollars on XBOX - XBOX 360 Purchases. As for the Windows 10, it's not bad, but there's something in the background of this and how they want you to move all of your shit onto the "cloud." Use your MSDN or outlook ID for a better experience. WTF. I don't trust them, never will. The OS is good for games though... I do like F# and visual studio. But too bad they don't have a Unix/Linux like su or sudo. Oh well. Fuck you Microsoft, with love and lube.
- mikestew 10y ago
  I loved my 360, was the first time I realised Microsoft could do largely zero hassle devices if they wanted. Yeah, and then the "new Microsoft" gave us the Xbone (my complaints for which can be found elsewhere on HN), so I don't know that a ten year old console is the best basis for judgement.

pmontra 10y ago

Too soon. Among the others let's see how the current embracing of Ubuntu plays out.

yarrel 10y ago
Extend then extinguish.
- pmontra 10y ago
  As soon as I see an extension to Ubuntu that works only on a Windows host I'll know that extinguish is on its way. Even Red Hat will suffer because it will mean that at least for somebody there will be some good reason to deploy Linux applications on a Windows host on Azure (or whatever), possibly interfacing other MS products.