"It's really easy to bash Microsoft based on their history of interaction with the OSS community - remember Embrace, Extend, Extinguish?" They continue using

"It's really easy to bash Microsoft based on their history of interaction with the OSS community - remember Embrace, Extend, Extinguish?" They continue using the same technique today. It is only that enough people have opted out from them and they are doing fine(It was very difficult in the past not depending on MS). I have to use proprietary MS tech like Silverlight to browse their web pages, no thanks, and they don't want to support webGL in IE so they don't empower standards like OpenGL. I prefer they don't mess with open Standards so they don't corrupt them. EEE is still alive today because the culture of a company is so difficult to change at the deep level(you need to change the entire hierarchy, the power chain), and they have not done that. This is just PR. "There are plenty of people within Microsoft who would love to be in this space." Yeah, in every company there is all kind of people. The question is who gets promoted to make decisions. As the company gets older the hierarchy becomes self sustaining like in the catholic church +65 years old bishops choosing a +80 years old Pope. Do you expect the Pope to change the structure that elected him?.