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As a long time Microsoft customer, this is why I'm not loving the Nadella age. Sure, free VS Code is nice, but Ballmer was trying to sell me Windows licenses.
by skrebbel 6y ago
As a long time Microsoft customer, this is why I'm not loving the Nadella age.
Sure, free VS Code is nice, but Ballmer was trying to sell me Windows licenses. That's simple, it's clear. Nadella, instead, said some blarb about could and mobile, made Windows free, and added bucketloads of telemetry.
Currently I still have the idea that Windows exists to sell me office and azure licenses, which is less bad than why Android exists, but sooner or later they'll have finalised whatever shady revenue model 180 they're in the middle of and I'll have to consider alternatives.
- pydry 6y agoVS code will remain free, open source and be improved for as long as it has competition. If other IDEs (e.g. pycharm) go out of business they'll probably slowly de-open source and start to charge. Right now it's the only way they have to get a lot of people using open source into the Microsoft ecosystem. Still in embrace stage.
- jrochkind1 6y agoSo quite traditional embrace extend extinguish, not actually much of a shift?