Windows is basically a glorified games console UI for me now but thanks to my actual consoles and VM-able games I don’t really miss Windows at all.

I had not used anything by Microsoft for 10 years ago until they bought GitHub. Fuck.

This is the most apt analogy I've yet seen. I went "back" to Microsoft in the mid 2010s right around the time they started gaining a reputation for sucking less. Big mistake. But at least it gave me enough perspective to realize that the competing non-microsoft products and OSes (even the FOSS ones!) really aren't lacking as much as you'd expect.

By enough marketing power you can sell almost anything.

"This is what we use to keep track all purchase orders! It's GRRREEEAT!"

Neat, so it's a big Excel spreadsheet we all use at the same time? I can get into—hang on, some of this stuff doesn't have a da—should I worry about—are 'Michel' and 'Michell' the same—what about 'Msh', and why are her rows purple?

"Old, all old. If someone from lab needs something, they will tell you."

But I still gotta—

"Everything in the SharePoint."

With the acquisition of Github and NPM, MSFT might just be the new ally of the open source movement.