> MS has open sourced huge amounts of resource and platform building code in .Net Core the past several years Maybe they're trying to embrace, extend and exter

> MS has open sourced huge amounts of resource and platform building code in .Net Core the past several years Maybe they're trying to embrace, extend and exterminate open source. /s As far as I can tell, EEE ended during Balmer. Not because he's necessarily a "good guy," but because he genuinely hated everything 'not Microsoft' too much in order to following through with the first step of EEE: embrace. There can't be a consistent "EEE strategy" because that strategy ended (for completely different reasons). If Microsoft has decided to attempt EEE again then, sure, there's something to be worried about. There is certainly one thing that has always been more reliable than Microsoft and EEE: lose if you do, lose if you don't. Microsoft could shut their doors for good tomorrow and there would likely still be people spouting nonsense about how that's actually EEE. > Defend and aggressively expand APIs and technologies where Microsoft leads (e.g., keep DirectX the only first-class API for games) It's curious that Microsoft partners so closely with Unity, then, who provide a way to develop games outside of DirectX.