It almost feels like HoTMaiL all over again. For those too young to remember, Microsoft bought Hotmail (forget the silly CamelCasing, we know that HoTMaiL was

It almost feels like HoTMaiL all over again. For those too young to remember, Microsoft bought Hotmail (forget the silly CamelCasing, we know that HoTMaiL was HTML + mail by now) which was based on FreeBSD+Apache and was champing at the bit to use it to demonstrate the scalability and stability of their then relatively new NT operating system and the IIS web server. Let's just say that... things did not go the way Microsoft would have wanted and the demonstration more or less achieved the opposite of what they intended. It took them a long time to move the frontend to Windows and an even longer time to do the same to the backend. They won't make that mistake again but they might succumb to featuritis or wrongfooted attempts to steer Github-users further and further into the Microsoft world.