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I don't see what's so amazing about this move. SO is well established at this point and Microsoft are just moving a small subset of their vast technical support
by vezzy-fnord 12y ago
I don't see what's so amazing about this move. SO is well established at this point and Microsoft are just moving a small subset of their vast technical support effort to another platform.
It is an excellent publicity stunt, though. It'll certainly fuel more of the "Microsoft has turned over a new leaf" discussion, but in the grand scheme of things with all their previous announcements like open-sourcing the C# compiler and .NET platform, this is a pretty negligible move.
- foxylad 12y agoIt may be negligible, but for me it's evidence of a humility that I haven't seen before. "Old Microsoft" would never have publicly admitted that MSDN was inferior to SO, and if they admitted it privately their response would have been to build a replacement. Hell, Ballmer would have been throwing tables at anyone who suggested this during his tenure.
- _lce0 12y agoLooks like it's more of cost saving than humility, at least to me
- sliverstorm 12y agoOne step at a time. Same thing I tell people about legalizing marijuana. You will never get everything you want, all at once. But if you go little by little...