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My guess is because they've been marketing themselves extra well lately and tech folks are eating it up.
by sli 7y ago
My guess is because they've been marketing themselves extra well lately and tech folks are eating it up.
- AnonymousPlanet 7y agoThis. All that tech people see is Microsoft positioning itself as this open and FOSS friendly company. But this is just a tiny fraction of what they do and mostly fuelled by a tiny fraction of their employees. The corporate facing rest hasn't changed a bit. Quite the contrary. Their licensing has become even more opaque, their overreach regarding what they shove down user's throats has increased, and you can't be sure you're the costumer anymore. But all of this stays hidden within some IT department who are mostly staffed by Windows admins who wouldn't know better anyway and don't complain. The developers who rave about the cool new Microsoft never have to deal with the blunt impact.
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- Causality1 7y agoIt's quite a bizarre thing. With one hand they embrace FOSS, stick a Linux kernel in Windows, etc and with the other they force updates that erase user files and break drivers.
- sdinsn 7y agoBut the "tech folks" are not the ones who are talking about breaking up tech companies, pundits are.