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what was that saying, "embrace, .." I forgot the next part
by jacknews 3y ago
what was that saying, "embrace, .." I forgot the next part
- mort96 3y agoThere's a lot of weird criticism of MS there but this is the first time I've seen them criticised for not doing EEE?
- jacknews 3y agoEh? I'm saying they are exactly doing EEE, at a corporate level This extinguishing of a bunch of taken-over staff might be a natural consequence of the 'merger' (duplicate roles and all that), but the embrace itself was totally invalid if you ask me.
- mort96 3y agoThe part which comes after the embrace is extend.. ..and it's a very specific strategy, about "embracing" an existing standard (integrating it into their products and pushing it), then adding a bunch of non-standard "extensions" to the standard, which "extinguishes" the standard and the other implementations because now everyone's writing against Microsoft's proprietary version instead of the actual standard. Think "Works best in Internet Explorer" web pages which used ActiveX controls (Microsoft's "extension" to the web), or Microsoft's Java implementation which omitted the standard JNI and introduced Microsoft's own proprietary FFI solution to make sure Java programs written for Windows wouldn't work on other systems. I struggle to see the connection to this ActiBlizz/Xbox case. EEE doesn't stand for "embrace then extinguish".