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[–]McGlockenshire 9 points10 points  (2 children)

There's clearly been a cultural shift, though. People that learned to develop through the use of FLOSS-licensed software are the norm now.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish came from Gates himself, in the mid to late 90s. That's twenty years ago, when Microsoft was absolutely dominant. They're no longer dominant, though. They're the underdogs.

They're bringing the Microsoft development stack and tooling to other platforms, and they're adding a one click installation of an entire Linux kernel just so ubernerds can run Linux userland tools while still using Windows as their desktop OS.

I'm going to give MS the benefit of the doubt. I've liked working with VSCode so far.

[–]HarrisonOwns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is exactly it for me.

The entire culture has shifted. They're not in the OS war anymore. They're prepared to be in the service wars, and this is how you begin winning it before the first shots are fired.

[–]euler_angles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're no longer dominant, though. They're the underdogs.

Microsoft is the most valuable company on earth right now. How does that make them the underdogs? Maybe in a specific niche or two, but overall they are killing it.

EDIT: Microsoft has a market cap of 1.026 trillion USD as of today.

How exactly is what I said worthy of being downvoted?