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That still sounds like Microsoft to me.

Really? With all the new things coming out of Redmond and with them open sourcing the full server side .NET stack[1], the description above still sounds like MS to you?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595905

"All the new things" You mean, flooding the market without a proper direction? :)

As for open sourcing, I don't see how that invalidates any of the points. None of them had "keeping platforms proprietary".

Exactly what could Microsoft do that would indicate to you that they have proper direction?

Alternatively, please point to a company that you think has proper direction and tell us why.

imo, it invalidates the following:

2 - the platform is not stagnant, be it Windows or .NET - new things are coming out;

3 - there is a proper direction, less towards Windows/Office as desktop apps and more towards services;

5 - the updates do happen more often, and at least for .NET they're done in a transparent way (being open source and all)

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