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What I find quite odd is Microsoft rarely seems to show up on front page of HN, then all of a sudden in concert all of the top links on front page are Microsoft related.

It's not that they're not doing good things to help fix their culture, but I find it almost annoying. It seems almost impossible to me that all this promotion is not coming from them directly..

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It's Microsoft Connect 2015 : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/10/19/micr...

The same happens with other vendors when they have their own conventions to be fair.

There was a conference this morning. They announced a bunch of interesting newsworthy things within an hour.

https://channel9.msdn.com/

Thanks for pointing that out. I do notice that the stories that do crop up to the top generally have to do with Microsoft open sourcing software, so in that sense the stories don't seem all that out of line with what I generally expect to see on front page of HN. But being a developer who remembers old Microsoft it's hard to accept them back into my life even if it is just a few links on a forum :)

The conference does add clarity. I'm surprised I hadn't heard about it before now.

EDIT: Just visited the channel9 live broadcast. "Scott Guthrie's Keynote" showed less than 700 views. The other keynote I looked at had less than 150 views, and the final keynote less than 100 views. I say good for Microsoft on all the changes they're making for the better, but the amount of promotion vs the amount of perceived interest do not appear to align when it comes to Microsoft and their work toward bringing developers into their ecosystem.

I could be wrong, but I believe that number is only for the views on the recorded sessions. Probably most people saw it live.

It looks like the stats may not have been accumulating earlier. I just saw that the numbers are updated and the main keynote shows just over 6000 views and the other two keynotes are hovering around 1000 views.

By contrast I was curious to see what Google I/O keynote stats show on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V-fIGMDsmE

It appears that graph starts from day one at over 800,000 views (not sure if that number includes live broadcast stats).

I'm not sure what you trying to prove here. The Google I/O is more comparable with Microsoft BUILD conference.

Not trying to prove anything. Just reflecting on how apparently inconsequential Microsoft has become. Or perhaps it's more about how consequential everyone else has become.

It’s not uncommon for big tech companies to unload a bunch of news at once. Look how much Apple shows up during WWDC.

And Amazon during re:Invent.

And Google during I/O.

Maybe, or maybe they had product announcements. Happens with Apple all the time: Release a new iPhone, iOS, some sort of consumer app, and a cloud-based service.

If you're gonna strike the iron, do it when it's hot!

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