I'd really like to believe that the embracing open source is different than the embrace, extend, extinguish mantra they had. I really do see a different attitud

I'd really like to believe that the embracing open source is different than the embrace, extend, extinguish mantra they had. I really do see a different attitude towards developers with VSCode, GitHub, Bash on Windows, etc (long time Mac user here - not on the Microsoft bandwagon). For the OS Ads... I also see red. But I try not to forget that a corporation isn't a person, it's a large group of people. History doesn't mean that a corporation always acts the same with the same incentive structure. Look at Apple over the years. Now corporations do have a culture derived from history (and leadership obviously). And that culture is different in different places of a large company. I believe the ads in the OS is something that is culturally wrong with the group developing that OS. And likely, knowing nothing of Microsoft's structure, the culture of the people working on the projects I mentioned above is drastically different than that team. Point is, because Microsoft is a large organization it can be "evil" and "good", it depends where you look. It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.