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oldnanon 2015: The year that Microsoft started getting the benefit of the doubt

I don't, and neither does anyone else. The point is that they remain a proprietary software company at their core and will likely remain that way.

oldnanon 2015: The year that Microsoft started getting the benefit of the doubt

Without adoption it's hard to stay relevant which was what my post was about...

oldnanon 2015: The year that Microsoft started getting the benefit of the doubt

Microsoft's 2015 reminds me of Sun's 2004 - open sourcing software in a desperate attempt to remain relevant as Linux grows. In truth Microsoft hasn't open sourced Office, Windows, SQL Server etc. which they make money from, but only bits which they think might save them from irrelevance amongst developers in the era of Linux and the cloud. As much as MS made a song and dance about open source the vast majority of MS profits are still from proprietary software.