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Because Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is older than dirt. Microsoft had a long habit of adopting public standards, adding proprietary extensions, and then smother

Because Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is older than dirt. Microsoft had a long habit of adopting public standards, adding proprietary extensions, and then smothering the standard by making their extensions intentionally obtuse and hard to interoperate with. I don't honestly see how they could do such with the Pi, but I'm honestly not awful enough to see all the nasty possibilities. From a different perspective: As someone who until recently lived in Washington, Microsoft's management stack hasn't changed. It is still a very Sales-driven organization, with very little leeway given to Engineering to drive things that are useful, interesting, or innovative. How this fits into a Microsoft sales plan, I don't see; It might be somebody's pet project based on their child's interest in a Pi (As was basically the origin of the Zune and Kinect; I know the sales guys who responsible for allowing those to be engineered). Regardless, I expect it to be a redheaded stepchild, because it's sales potential is not proven.

BinaryIdiot 12y ago
> From a different perspective: As someone who until recently lived in Washington, Microsoft's management stack hasn't changed. It is still a very Sales-driven organization, with very little leeway given to Engineering to drive things that are useful, interesting, or innovative. You say you lived in Washington, are you implying you were a Microsoft employee? Seems from everyone I'm hearing from that they've been making major structure changes for a while now and a lot of the old management has been shuffled or removed (especially with those huge rounds of layoffs) so I'm curious as to why I'm hearing something different from what you're saying.
- GauntletWizard 12y ago
  No, my reasons for leaving WA are completely unrelated to Microsoft's layoffs. And, despite being in the Seattle area for nearly 10 years, I never did work for them. I just knew a bunch of people who did. Sure, it's getting stirred up there, but most of the layoffs were low-level, contract, vendor, and new-hire employees. From what I have heard, the management structure has had a power struggle, but it was between two camps of the good old boys, and the new boss is the same as the old boss.

BinaryIdiot 12y ago

> From a different perspective: As someone who until recently lived in Washington, Microsoft's management stack hasn't changed. It is still a very Sales-driven organization, with very little leeway given to Engineering to drive things that are useful, interesting, or innovative. You say you lived in Washington, are you implying you were a Microsoft employee? Seems from everyone I'm hearing from that they've been making major structure changes for a while now and a lot of the old management has been shuffled or removed (especially with those huge rounds of layoffs) so I'm curious as to why I'm hearing something different from what you're saying.

GauntletWizard 12y ago
No, my reasons for leaving WA are completely unrelated to Microsoft's layoffs. And, despite being in the Seattle area for nearly 10 years, I never did work for them. I just knew a bunch of people who did. Sure, it's getting stirred up there, but most of the layoffs were low-level, contract, vendor, and new-hire employees. From what I have heard, the management structure has had a power struggle, but it was between two camps of the good old boys, and the new boss is the same as the old boss.