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A comment on Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by maximente on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:27PM (#20481207)
> Microsoft has created a massive amount of goodwill by doing incredible things for communities

i can't tell if this is sarcasm, recency bias, or something more nefarious. have you heard of embrace, extend and extinguish?

but, i'll bite - what incredible things for communities have they done?

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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by rowanG077 on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:21PM (#20481663)
I have heard of it. I have also heard of this little thing called change. afaik Microsoft hasn't recently done anything like embrace, extend and extinguish.

> but, i'll bite - what incredible things for communities have they done?

Visual studio code. .NET core. Making visual studio free. WSL, joining the linux foundation, typescript. I could go on...

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