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plnk22on Microsoft Is the New Google, Google Is the Old Microsoft

The writing was on the wall for MS's dev platform since open source dominates startups and the cloud. Nobody builds the next facebook or twitter using MS tools and Windows. If anything the rise of open source and linux put MS in a position where open sourcing their tools was the only option left to them to stay relevant. Making a show of 'loving' Linux was done in an attempt to give themselves a chance of getting a slice of the huge cloud computing market for hosting Linux. Make no mistake, Linux has put MS in a very uncomfortable position.

plnk22on Microsoft Is the New Google, Google Is the Old Microsoft

How much has MS truly open sourced? SQL Server? Windows? Visual Studio? MS Office?

No, MS has realised Linux is winning in the Cloud and want to open source their development platform in a desperate attempt to stay relevant.

That said, Google strong-arming phone and tablet manufacturers, and indie musicians on YouTube is pretty shady too.

plnk22on Microsoft Is the New Google, Google Is the Old Microsoft

It's probably more accurate to say that Google has joined Microsoft as being a fast follower more than an innovator. Just look at Google+ attempting to follow FB's lead, and now GCE being a very obvious attempt to emulate AWS and EC2, similar to what Microsoft is trying to do with Azure. Then we have MS OneDrive and Google fast following Dropbox.

plnk22on Google Compute Engine Is Down

GCE had a multi region outage so multi zone within a region wouldn't have helped in this case.

plnk22on Google Compute Engine Is Down

Perhaps the fact that the GCE outage affected multiple regions around the world. EC2 outages were all localized to a single region (and in most cases limited to a single AZ within that region).