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In the 90's and aughts there was very little love for Microsoft among IT professionals. It's a little embarrassing to think about right now when you realize th

In the 90's and aughts there was very little love for Microsoft among IT professionals. It's a little embarrassing to think about right now when you realize that Microsoft has never poisoned a river or sent thugs with billy clubs to bust a union, and so all of us had bigger fish to fry. But there was never love.

brazzledazzle 3y ago
I don't think you're wrong but it's also fair to say that Microsoft was actively trying to destroy Linux and open source in general. They were literally funding legal attacks open source software. They were also engaged in a ton of anti-competitive behavior. Gates was a very smart guy and was absolutely a ruthless corporate terminator which is easy to forget given how he acts and spends his time/money today. And the Microsoft of today still engages in questionable or shitty behavior but regulators are even softer now than they were then. So Teams gets bundled for free with 365 after Slack proves there's a market.
- ocschwar 3y ago
  Teams does send me back down memory lane with a good old fashioned 2 minutes hate for Microsoft every day.
hinkley 3y ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Microsoft represented an existential threat to many, many parts of the IT ecosystem every bit as real as dumping toxic waste into salmon breeding grounds.
chasd00 3y ago
Microsoft was one of the most ruthless orgs in tech history. They destroyed anyone within eyesight of their goals with wild abandon. To this day I have a hard time trusting/believing anything coming out of that org. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to wake tomorrow to GitHub being accessible only from the most expensive visual studio license available (and required to be running on the most expensive Windows license available).
- worrycue 3y ago
  > Microsoft was one of the most ruthless orgs in tech history. MS is like a boxer who doesn’t just want to beat you in the ring. He wants to outright kill you too so you will never fight again.

brazzledazzle 3y ago

I don't think you're wrong but it's also fair to say that Microsoft was actively trying to destroy Linux and open source in general. They were literally funding legal attacks open source software. They were also engaged in a ton of anti-competitive behavior. Gates was a very smart guy and was absolutely a ruthless corporate terminator which is easy to forget given how he acts and spends his time/money today. And the Microsoft of today still engages in questionable or shitty behavior but regulators are even softer now than they were then. So Teams gets bundled for free with 365 after Slack proves there's a market.

ocschwar 3y ago
Teams does send me back down memory lane with a good old fashioned 2 minutes hate for Microsoft every day.

hinkley 3y ago

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Microsoft represented an existential threat to many, many parts of the IT ecosystem every bit as real as dumping toxic waste into salmon breeding grounds.

chasd00 3y ago

Microsoft was one of the most ruthless orgs in tech history. They destroyed anyone within eyesight of their goals with wild abandon. To this day I have a hard time trusting/believing anything coming out of that org. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to wake tomorrow to GitHub being accessible only from the most expensive visual studio license available (and required to be running on the most expensive Windows license available).

worrycue 3y ago
> Microsoft was one of the most ruthless orgs in tech history. MS is like a boxer who doesn’t just want to beat you in the ring. He wants to outright kill you too so you will never fight again.