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I've seen Microsoft employees across the web have to point this out a dozen times. "The New Microsoft" seems to be making better decisions overall, but it appa
by mieko 12y ago
I've seen Microsoft employees across the web have to point this out a dozen times.
"The New Microsoft" seems to be making better decisions overall, but it apparently didn't learn anything from the early-2000s ".net branding clusterfuck" which conflated their runtime platform, development tools, consumer-facing single-sign-on, and a few dozen other things in the mind of the public.
- larp 12y agoI think you nailed it. Perhaps out of hope but more likely Stockholm syndrome, over the last decade I seem to have got stuck in a cycle of: Blind love and hope for a new product of theirs, utter disappointment at the resulting clusterfuck after a week, hatred, switch to something else, miss it, go crawling back. Only just broken out of this loop but to be honest it knackered my productivity badly over the years. Ultimately I'm a sucker I suspect but the revelation that FreeBSD hadn't actually poked me in the eye once in the last decade had turned my hand finally. That and ruby. Yes I got tangled in DNA, ATL etc as well. Nothing but regret.