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The developers' intent does align with Microsoft's current interests -- as you say, they are hired to do what the business directs. Perhaps their interests wil
by Rusky 6y ago
The developers' intent does align with Microsoft's current interests -- as you say, they are hired to do what the business directs.
Perhaps their interests will shift in the future, as they clearly have in the past. But the things they build now are not from the "extend" phase of an EEE arc. At worst they are in the "embrace" phase.
- bigbizisverywyz 6y agoEmbrace phase sounds about right. If MS make it as easy to run desktop apps on Windows as it is on Linux, then the question of why even run a dedicated Linux machine if you can do everything on Windows? becomes relevant. I suppose clipboard integration already works? And drag n' drop? Once that mindset is heavily entrenched (e.g. in Enterprises), then the extend phase can begin. I don't think MS are as scared as they were previously when Linux started to dominate the server landscape, and swathes of new developers (especially web backend) moved to a java, ROR and Python (or LAMP), where MS were absolutely nowhere in the stack.