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I started listening to the Microsoft-centric "Windows Weekly" podcast when I was a teenager 15 years ago. I have been always fascinated by Microsoft as a techno

I started listening to the Microsoft-centric "Windows Weekly" podcast when I was a teenager 15 years ago. I have been always fascinated by Microsoft as a technology giant and never understood the vibe I got from others in the industry that MS was a musty corp past its heyday. It had gobs of money, a focus on developers and an organization maturity that gives it a serious advantage. This is not to say that MS is perfect, but counting it out like so many others is baffling to me.

nivenkos 4y ago
It's a company built on fraud and abusive tactics - from QDOS to Mosaic to ActivePlatform and Blackbird. God help us when they get a near monopolistic position in video gaming and large-scale AI.
maldev 4y ago
100% in your camp. Microsoft Research publishes fantastic things, windbg is amazing, and the security ecosystem is really pushing the envelope for an open platform. And as someone working in the Kernel, I enjoy it alot more than Linux. I think there's just not as many influencers working on this side, so they get alot of fake news that's not true. And nobody is there to correct the record. And it's really easy to see that, since alot of the "facts" are hidden in deep documentation, or just plain undocumented to the point you have to work with it daily to know about it.
ThrowawayR2 4y ago
There are a lot of people whose thinking fossilized (or perhaps I should say FOSS-ilized) in the '80s / '90s when Microsoft was in its growth phase and its products were a lot less stable and secure than what they evolved into (much like everything else; pre-2.0 Linux distros were riddled with problems as well) and Microsoft was aggressively throwing its weight around to defeat competitors (just like its competitors were aggressively doing to them and each other, but they never bring that up since it doesn't jibe with their narrative). As the kids nowadays would joke, "Gates and Ballmer are living in their heads rent-free" except it's been for the past 25-30 years.

nivenkos 4y ago

It's a company built on fraud and abusive tactics - from QDOS to Mosaic to ActivePlatform and Blackbird. God help us when they get a near monopolistic position in video gaming and large-scale AI.

maldev 4y ago

100% in your camp. Microsoft Research publishes fantastic things, windbg is amazing, and the security ecosystem is really pushing the envelope for an open platform. And as someone working in the Kernel, I enjoy it alot more than Linux. I think there's just not as many influencers working on this side, so they get alot of fake news that's not true. And nobody is there to correct the record. And it's really easy to see that, since alot of the "facts" are hidden in deep documentation, or just plain undocumented to the point you have to work with it daily to know about it.

ThrowawayR2 4y ago

There are a lot of people whose thinking fossilized (or perhaps I should say FOSS-ilized) in the '80s / '90s when Microsoft was in its growth phase and its products were a lot less stable and secure than what they evolved into (much like everything else; pre-2.0 Linux distros were riddled with problems as well) and Microsoft was aggressively throwing its weight around to defeat competitors (just like its competitors were aggressively doing to them and each other, but they never bring that up since it doesn't jibe with their narrative). As the kids nowadays would joke, "Gates and Ballmer are living in their heads rent-free" except it's been for the past 25-30 years.