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While you're stuck with your notions for the next 6 years or however long until you feel they need to behave, other people, including your competitors, get to e
by BoorishBears 6y ago
While you're stuck with your notions for the next 6 years or however long until you feel they need to behave, other people, including your competitors, get to enjoy the fruits of evaluating Microsoft for what it is now, not what it was.
Reminds me of when Visual Studio Code came out and some people denied themselves of what would end up being one of the best editors to come out in a while just because they refused to use something with such a Microsoft-ey name...
- hinkley 6y agoWe are in a world where there are so many options there aren't enough hours in the day to keep up with them all. Do you know why we're in this world? We are in this world because Microsoft stumbled. They aren't just a large company that people have an old grudge against. They're very specifically the people who kept us from having the option to not consider a particular company and still have any reasonable options at all.
- BoorishBears 6y agoI'm not even going to bother pointing out the dramatization here... Because this is all tangential to the fact that in a world that now moves one financial quarter at a time, six years is a lifetime. MS's direction has been consistent and it's been good. If you're waiting for another six years to let MS prove themselves, it's on you, but again, plenty of other people will reap the benefits of not doing so