1. That was good. At some point you need to cut your losses. 2. Yet. Microsoft has a tremendous research department. They could still come out with someth

1. That was good. At some point you need to cut your losses. 2. Yet. Microsoft has a tremendous research department. They could still come out with something game-changing. 3. This is also good. We don't need a bunch of kids who are brought up on software designed in the 1980s and hasn't advanced since. 4. I think MS has decided that they need to open up to certain degree despite the loss of revenue that it can cost because of the other less tangible benefits. 5. It's a good thing that MariaDB has been forked from MySQL because Oracle has had a tendency to kill every open source project they've acquired, or let them die. 6. The problem with Windows 8 was that aside from the improvements under the hood, every single thing that changed was for Microsoft's benefit, and not for the benefit of the users. Windows 10 backed off on this arrogance, but only a little. Microsoft has clearly made the commitment that when it comes to PC operating systems, that the user, and not the software is now the product, and that from now on, in order to get the marginal improvements in their products, you will have to sacrifice a lot in terms of privacy, usability and convenience. And that's assuming that their QA is up to snuff, which it clearly isn't.