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This feels like Slashdot from 10 years ago. I thought the anti-Microsoft sentiment had dissipated, but clearly that’s not the case. I was a Microsoft focused d

This feels like Slashdot from 10 years ago. I thought the anti-Microsoft sentiment had dissipated, but clearly that’s not the case. I was a Microsoft focused developer through the bad years and even I thought they acted horribly against Netscape. They ended up paying a billion dollars for it and we’re forced to change. I wasn’t a fan of Ballmer either and thought MS had lost its way. Windows Phone started off nice but they just couldn’t get enough developer interested. Maybe that was the wake up call. If you don’t have the devs and you’re a dev-centric company, you’re doomed. In comes Satya Nadella, along with Scott Guthrie and other internal proponents of open development and the company has very demonstrably changed its stripes in the last five years. I judge companies on current behavior and Microsoft seems to be doing far more right than wrong.

romaniv 8y ago
>I judge companies on current behavior and Microsoft seems to be doing far more right than wrong. This isn't about behavior. This is about product management. As a reminder, Microsoft's current products include TFS (and I don't mean just TFSVC) and Teams.
- ChicagoDave 8y ago
  And nearly everyone using TFS uses the TFS-Git repositories now, including MS itself. The PM aspects of TFS are notoriously cumbersome, so I see the Github acquisition as a potential benefit to that side of TFS. Then again, I think Mingle (Thoughtworks) is the best agile project management tool.