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Embrace. Extend. <-- We are here. Extinguish. Microsoft. Microsoft never changes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wi

• jimmaswell 2y ago
  where's the embrace step? vscode is their own product in the first place.
  • solardev 2y ago
    So was IE, back in the day, when they first "embraced" the web. Today's "embrace" is of the web dev ecosystem, which before VSCode's dominance consisted of Jetbrains, other IDEs, text editors, etc. Now with VScode and Github, they control much of the dev ecosystem, shrink competitors' marketshares by making them free to end-users (subsidized by other Microsoft businesses), expand them with new capabilities (even before secret APIs), etc.
  • falcor84 2y ago
    Arguably VS Code was their way of "embracing" what GitHub were doing with Atom.
  • sakesun 2y ago
    VSCode is embracing Eclipse team and Eclipse way of opensource IDE ecosystem.
    • TiredOfLife 2y ago
      No. It's Eclipse that took Microsoft made Monaco editor and built Theia on top of it.
      • sakesun 2y ago
        Microsoft hired ex-Eclipse team to build VSCode.
• kelnos 2y ago
  It is really a shame to me that everyone believes Microsoft has changed and would never behave like they did in the 90s and prior. They haven't changed. They just decided -- for a time -- that another strategy was in their best interests. They're deciding that again, and going back to their EEE playbook. (It also occurs to me that a lot of people here probably aren't old enough to remember 20th-century Microsoft...)