Microsoft is such a huge corporation that it has many teams that act totally opposite one another. Being in or dealing with any one can blind you to what the ov

Microsoft is such a huge corporation that it has many teams that act totally opposite one another. Being in or dealing with any one can blind you to what the overall company is like. It seems she's in one of the better groups. Personally, I've always loved Microsoft Research specifically since they do great stuff. Practical example: their driver, verification tool is the reason it doesn't blue screen so much anymore. They did another OS (VerveOS) proven safe down to assembly. Neat stuff. Then, there's the groups pushing garbage on enterprises with plenty of lock-in. Then, there's also what I read where the workers in many parts have a pretty stable job whose environment and structure works out better than usual for women, people with families, or just those wanting work/life balance Silicon Valley usually won't give them. The bigger tech companies often rate better than startups and such on those points. Overall, though, I think she's wrong about Microsoft changing. They're not. They have patents, copyrights, and data/protocol lock-in guaranteeing billions a year in profits for them. Changing would cost them much of that which will never happen. Far as open-source, they've gotten over a billion dollars off Android alone in patent royalties from their legal team despite doing everything they could to eliminate Android in favor of Windows Phone. Royalties not earned for sure. They did some Linux contributions to support running it on their own hypervisor pursuing more lock-in at other levels. Even many of the MS Research inventions are patented with who knows what risk. They continue to pay off politicians to make things worse for the rest of us like in U.S. w/ patent/copyright laws or Munich trying to uproot the FOSS conversion. They're the same, evil company that's trying to adjust to a FOSS-friendly world in a way that lets them suck money out of that too at everyone's expense. All that said, you can make an impact if you work at Microsoft on improving one of their huge, legacy products. Or even a new one with a high-chance of adoption. It might be a decent choice if aiming for the greater good. An easy example would be anything stopping code injection in Windows systems would be great in terms of damage prevented for that user and anyone their box DDOS'd. Reliability or integrity of data, too, as who wants to loose their most critical files at the worst time. Definitely good to be done even if they're evil. Just gotta determine if you want to do good for Microsoft's customers or improve things that will keep people away from them.