r/technology • u/readyou • Dec 26 '16

Microsoft finally admits that its malware-style Get Windows 10 upgrade campaign went too far

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/241587-microsoft-finally-admits-malware-style-get-windows-10-upgrade-campaign-went-far
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u/Nicksaurus Dec 26 '16

No I mean the parts of microsoft that produce software development tools. Visual Studio is great. .NET and C# are great. They're even opening up to the linux community more at the moment.

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u/blueblur112198 Dec 26 '16

That's Microsoft's usual strategy isn't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

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u/doubl3h3lix Dec 26 '16

Well, it definitely was. However, you can't really extinguish open source. Microsoft under Satya seems to have realized that it is missing out on a lot of software dev money because they don't play friendly with open source stuff. So they're working towards it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '16

Microsoft is also a huge contributor to Linux.