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>I would also argue that MS is nothing like the company that it was 30 years ago when that philosophy was a thing.

This is like saying that a cannibal has stopped eating people because there have been no disappearances in the last two days. Sure, technically correct, I'd still not eat their curry.



It is not anything even remotely like that. Fuck, I love programmers.


Yep, they became worse.

30 years ago your PC was at least your PC, now they shove all kinds of cloud and AI services down the users' throat and put ads where they don't belong.


You are making the mistake of thinking that the Microsoft that owns Windows and the Microsoft that owns GitHub is the same org[1].

1 / https://i.insider.com/4e0b340dcadcbbdd35120000?width=700&for...


The head is the same.




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