Except they bought it and now you have to agree to let all your open source code be used to train their AI bots . Which is why I left GitUb for Git lab and refuse to use it. I’m seriously thinking oif removing all repos off GitHub because MSD owns it now.
I for one am not a fan of Mr. Softy; they’ve long done things that were anticompetitive. Within the last year I’ve personally seen them try to hold a customer’s data ransom after a high profile attack. Anyone remember what they did to Ericsson? I have my suspicions that they’re doing the same thing to a client of mine now, and would be shocked if it doesn’t make the news in the next 12-18 months.
They’ve gotten well over $1B from the US government to secure their software and continue to have high profile blunders and we just let it slide. Last thing; all of this talk of openness doesn’t matter if the fill the software with loads of telemetry data going back to the mothership. No thanks!
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Apparently I forgot, and a search is showing nothing. What did they do?
I am still confused. Nokia was failing because of iOS and Android, so they did a deal with MS to make the Windows phone, which also failed. How does that make MS bad?
And back to, how is any different than any large corp? How is Apple not just as guilty?
Also to be clear. Respect in as far as one can respect a Trillion dollar company that got there with shady business practice. I find outlook.com to be a very viable alternative to gmail when I need a free email and I use one drive as a supplmentary cloud to iCloud and Office products. Copilots become my chat bot of choice in the AI craze.
Many think Nokia was doomed when they stayed with Symbian and failed to develop a touchscreen model. But by the time MS entered the market Android and iOS were well established and there wasn’t much demand for a third player. “If only” Nokia had adopted android they might never have had to sell to MS.
Finally got to read the article. Well written! Whether or not Microsoft became non-evil at its core, changing the message attracted people to it who were trying to do good things and shared the empathetic growth mindset, which at minimum changed parts of the company with which the public interacts.
Speaking of Microsoft, I just ordered a new Windows 11 PC before the tariffs hit. I was planning to wait until late next year, but I am not sure how much AMD and the other PC parts makers will be impacted (probably heavily). Not touching Intel right now. 
Apple is expected to cut a deal with the Trump administration according to Bloomberg, to avoid the tariffs, and I think I am good with my current Mac line-up anyway.