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I reported a bug in a Microsoft product earlier this year, one whose only effect was to complicate interop with a minor opensource competitor. They handled tha
by Arnt 8y ago
I reported a bug in a Microsoft product earlier this year, one whose only effect was to complicate interop with a minor opensource competitor.
They handled that fairly, promptly and well. Microsoft isn't the same company as ten and twenty years ago.
- ekianjo 8y ago> Microsoft isn't the same company as ten and twenty years ago. It's not because you had one positive experience with one small part of MS that it means the whole company's culture has suddenly reversed to be philanthropic or something.
- BFatts 8y agoIt's not one positive experience, but it's a sequence of them that shows that Microsoft is lead differently than it was in the past. Yes, this is one incident but personally I've witnessed many others that show that Microsoft isn't the same company it was 10 years ago.
- Arnt 8y agoI've had more good experiences, I mentioned that one because it's such a stark contrast, not because it's unique. Microsoft is hardly philanthtropic. I'd say it acts like a fairly enlightened bigco these days, that's very different from around y2k. My experiences are such that I did report that bug, I'd never have bothered doing that 20 years ago.
- hvo 8y ago"Microsoft isn't the same company as ten and twenty years ago."I notice this as well. But I am trying to figure out how Microsoft will manage GitHub. Is GitHub going to be a standalone company within Microsoft or a significant part of its enterprise division? What folks here are not talking about is how Microsoft handles LinkedIn after acquisition.