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The Microsoft of today is not the Microsoft of 15 years ago. Nadella has a long history of embracing openness, especially with the Cloud Services division he w

The Microsoft of today is not the Microsoft of 15 years ago. Nadella has a long history of embracing openness, especially with the Cloud Services division he was heading until his appointment as CEO. I think the open-sourcing of the .NET platform is a big testament to that. The old Microsoft guard would have ran the company into the ground before doing that.

Piskvorrr 11y ago
Embracing, extending, and ...?
raverbashing 11y ago
I agree, it's not the same MS. Just don't forget about the royalties MS charges from Android manufacturers as well. They might be on the right reinvention path, but they're still a giant company, and one to be respected.
- AnimalMuppet 11y ago
  s/respected/regarded with suspicion/
jonhohle 11y ago
Where is the evidence that this is not the Microsoft of 15-25 years ago? What was going on 20 years ago at Microsoft? * implementing POSIX application compatibility to compete with UNIX for gov. contracts * giving away IE * embrace and extending Java Compare to today * additional compatibility with tools typically used in Unix administration * giving away windows * Objective-C/Cocoa support for Windows applications The steps they were taking didn't seem bad until the end game was obvious, but they started out very similarly to the current initiatives. A lot of the actions seem exactly like 20 years ago - do whatever it takes to get market share, make it incredibly difficult for that market share to migrate.
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vetinari 11y ago
Are we talking about the same Microsoft? That Microsoft, that was bullying MPs in UK (http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2409808/microsoft-bullied-mps-over-government-switch-to-open-source-standards http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2409808/microsoft-b...)?. That one, that lobbies in India against their policies (http://techrights.org/2015/05/29/microsoft-vs-india/ http://techrights.org/2015/05/29/microsoft-vs-india/)? Yeah, but incomplete .net on github, yeah!

Piskvorrr 11y ago

Embracing, extending, and ...?

raverbashing 11y ago

I agree, it's not the same MS. Just don't forget about the royalties MS charges from Android manufacturers as well. They might be on the right reinvention path, but they're still a giant company, and one to be respected.

AnimalMuppet 11y ago
s/respected/regarded with suspicion/

jonhohle 11y ago

Where is the evidence that this is not the Microsoft of 15-25 years ago? What was going on 20 years ago at Microsoft? * implementing POSIX application compatibility to compete with UNIX for gov. contracts * giving away IE * embrace and extending Java Compare to today * additional compatibility with tools typically used in Unix administration * giving away windows * Objective-C/Cocoa support for Windows applications The steps they were taking didn't seem bad until the end game was obvious, but they started out very similarly to the current initiatives. A lot of the actions seem exactly like 20 years ago - do whatever it takes to get market share, make it incredibly difficult for that market share to migrate.

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vetinari 11y ago

Are we talking about the same Microsoft? That Microsoft, that was bullying MPs in UK (http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2409808/microsoft-bullied-mps-over-government-switch-to-open-source-standards http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2409808/microsoft-b...)?. That one, that lobbies in India against their policies (http://techrights.org/2015/05/29/microsoft-vs-india/ http://techrights.org/2015/05/29/microsoft-vs-india/)? Yeah, but incomplete .net on github, yeah!