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Microsoft hasn't changed, but the opposition has. Back in the old days it was easy to hate Microsoft. They were doing as much damage as possible to Linux and op

Microsoft hasn't changed, but the opposition has. Back in the old days it was easy to hate Microsoft. They were doing as much damage as possible to Linux and open source. Their rivals today are just as bad as they are - maybe worse.

BiteCode_dev 3y ago
Oracle enters the chat.
hospitalJail 3y ago
I want to hate Google, but they still seem to be less evil. Free Excel/Word/PPT(sorry libre office for forgetting about you), Android/Chrome is still FOSS and I use their degoogled versions, they contributed hugely to AI. But yeah, the FAAMG is not something to be worshiped. Heck, its a red flag if you are a genuine fan of one of these companies.
matwood 3y ago
MS did a pretty good job changing their reputation until they foisted the abomination knowns as Teams onto the world.
- tracker1 3y ago
  IMO Teams is pretty meh... most of them are... and while I like most of Slack better, it is what it is. Teams fits in for those tied to other MS services, Azure AD, O/M365, etc. I do wish Teams. would put a little more effort on their Linux client though. I know it's just an electron wrapper, but still. A little testing and supporting the non-enterprise users would be nice. While I appreciate parts of what MS has done, it's a massive corporation with different divisions doing things that are much more open and others much more closed off. I'm sure there's lots of in-fighting between the differing approaches.
manuelabeledo 3y ago
> Their rivals today are just as bad as they are - maybe worse. I might agree if we look at each one of them individually. The issue with Microsoft is that their product offer has a breath that most competitors cannot even start to fathom. Specifically, Sony Entertainment may be a competitor in the console gaming space, but Microsoft gaming divisions go further, and are tightly integrated with others, e.g. DirectX, Windows, XBox, Azure.

BiteCode_dev 3y ago

Oracle enters the chat.

hospitalJail 3y ago

I want to hate Google, but they still seem to be less evil. Free Excel/Word/PPT(sorry libre office for forgetting about you), Android/Chrome is still FOSS and I use their degoogled versions, they contributed hugely to AI. But yeah, the FAAMG is not something to be worshiped. Heck, its a red flag if you are a genuine fan of one of these companies.

matwood 3y ago

MS did a pretty good job changing their reputation until they foisted the abomination knowns as Teams onto the world.

tracker1 3y ago
IMO Teams is pretty meh... most of them are... and while I like most of Slack better, it is what it is. Teams fits in for those tied to other MS services, Azure AD, O/M365, etc. I do wish Teams. would put a little more effort on their Linux client though. I know it's just an electron wrapper, but still. A little testing and supporting the non-enterprise users would be nice. While I appreciate parts of what MS has done, it's a massive corporation with different divisions doing things that are much more open and others much more closed off. I'm sure there's lots of in-fighting between the differing approaches.

manuelabeledo 3y ago

> Their rivals today are just as bad as they are - maybe worse. I might agree if we look at each one of them individually. The issue with Microsoft is that their product offer has a breath that most competitors cannot even start to fathom. Specifically, Sony Entertainment may be a competitor in the console gaming space, but Microsoft gaming divisions go further, and are tightly integrated with others, e.g. DirectX, Windows, XBox, Azure.