"They still have some competent developers working there. The problem is that although they put on a lot of lipstick - they are still dead Evil." The problem i

"They still have some competent developers working there. The problem is that although they put on a lot of lipstick - they are still dead Evil." The problem is that they have some competent developers working there, when realistically they need badass talent like Google and Apple has. Whether or not a company is evil is subject to opinion on what you think a company is meant to do. A company is meant to be profitable. The only thing I see in this acquisition is that Microsoft want's to improve it hiring abilities and to gain control on a few open source projects like Electron and Atom. Projects that they use for example in VS Code. Like I wouldn't be surprised if Electron was their only interest because of Web Assembly being on the horizon and the fact that Windows is still the dominant desktop OS, but their web store doesn't deliver like Google or Apple stores because developers attention is already split between Android, IOS, and Web development. Long story short, Microsoft has a lot to gain by integrating Electron into Windows because to develop for Web is essentially the same as developing for Windows. (in this regard they gain the same edge that ChromeOS has) Plus the more Microsoft embraces open source the closer we get to a Linux based Windows OS. Which sounds horrifying until you consider that Linux shipping on every computer in the world means all these projects developed for Linux will get to actually see the light of day.