> I am constantly amazed that I can open a linux prompt on windows Similarly, I'm amazed that I can build truly cross-platform .NET apps using Microsoft's own

> I am constantly amazed that I can open a linux prompt on windows Similarly, I'm amazed that I can build truly cross-platform .NET apps using Microsoft's own open-source tools from the Linux command line. (Apparently .NET Core, which both adopted the MIT license, and ushered in true cross-platform support, was announced later in the year that Nadella took over. [1] Not sure whether he had anything to do with it.) What an about-face from 2000-era Microsoft's embrace-extend-extinguish approach. Remember Visual J++? If you'd told me then I'd be willingly programming on a Microsoft toolchain 20 years later I would not have believed you. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET#History