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> they would just be accused of "embracing and extending" the technology Well, that didn't happen with TypeScript. I think the perception of Microsoft has chan
by dev360 9y ago
> they would just be accused of "embracing and extending" the technology
Well, that didn't happen with TypeScript. I think the perception of Microsoft has changed a lot since Nadella took over because they have really worked really hard to avoid the IBM trap.
- sotojuan 9y agoYes now they're known for monitoring your computer usage and updating it while you're not looking.
- lucideer 9y agoBy a certain subset of people. I think the perception of Microsoft in the tech community has become oddly polarised. On one hand you have developers and power-users who use Windows and care about privacy. And a probably much tinier number who don't use Windows but care enough about other people's privacy. On the other hand you have all the web/JS/FOSS tech folk on Linux and macOS - these OSes have pretty tiny usage stats over all but I'd guess relatively high within that community - who don't care so much about Windows and as such just see the positive results of their FOSS efforts. I wonder who's winning...
- pjmlp 9y agoYes, but apparently they are the only bad ones, because people are perfectly fine when Apple or Google do it.
- Analemma_ 9y agoWPF was released in 2006 though. The Microsoft of 2006 definitely would've been pilloried for EEE if WPF had been built on web technologies. (Not that the Microsoft of 2006 ever would've done that)