It may alleviate some cynicism to look at this as less a matter of implicit 'trust' and more a matter of 'best possible outcome'. At least IMO. As it is, Micros

It may alleviate some cynicism to look at this as less a matter of implicit 'trust' and more a matter of 'best possible outcome'. At least IMO. As it is, Microsoft has been doing some pretty good, developer-centric work and I for one appreciate that. That isn't to say Google isn't, but again: best possible outcome? Like someone else brought up: I feel more comfortable with a product being owned by Microsoft and maintained for longer than 18 months before the devs get bored with and put it in front of a firing squad so they can go create yet another messaging platform (only to later kill that too)