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> and they’re desperately trying not to be microsoft, even though that’s what they mostly are. Mostly because Microsoft became more like Google in recent years
by aaron_m04 7y ago
> and they’re desperately trying not to be microsoft, even though that’s what they mostly are.
Mostly because Microsoft became more like Google in recent years. :P
- sundvor 7y agoYou mean old Google? They're doing some seriously good things in the dev space.
- runn1ng 7y agoand spamming users with ads left and right, Google style, too
- sundvor 7y agoHmm. In Chromium Edge, my new default browser, AFAIK the UO plugin will still work perfectly unlike in Chrome, meaning I rarely if ever see any ads. The closest thing to an ad in VSCode or for that matter Terminal would be .. I guess hints at ease of Azure cloud services? Never found it intrusive myself, and I do AWS.
- twobat 7y agoIt's hard to understand your message, but... ads in VSCode? Is that a thing now?
- sundvor 7y agoI was kind of trying to say I haven't seen any ads, just non-intrusive integration with other MS services, in response to the ads reply I got. Sorry that was actually rather vague and roundabout.
- yusi-san 7y agoYou can use VSCodium, it's a fork of VSCode without Microsoft's telemetry.
- hlmencken 7y agoThey are embracing a lot of technologies because that is how they gain market share and then extinguish them.
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