Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by deelowe on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @04:58PM (#41372958)

Microsoft as a company is extremely myopic. Budgets are scrutinized down to the penny every few months at very senior levels. This drives a culture of immediacy. Wine was a threat until Microsoft realized everyone in tech had moved to service based business models (aka "cloud"). Only afterwards, did they "realize" Linux as a threat to their long term viability no longer mattered.

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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by kristopolous on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @07:57PM (#41374588)

They finally started to admit where they're losers and stop trying to fight those battles.

Dumping endless piles of cash into projects nobody cares about and pretending like you're the dominant player when you control some dwindling 2% of the market is stupid and more companies should learn that lesson

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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by deelowe on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @10:05PM (#41375293)

I think it's more because individual pc instances literally doesn't matter anymore. Operating systems and programming languages which lock you into them are irrelevant from a revenue standpoint.

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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by fortran77 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @09:06PM (#41375021)

And that's why they have a $3.08 trillion market cap

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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by JetSpiegel on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @10:26PM (#41375400)

The aircraft carrier will hit the shallows, but that massive inertia can "carry" it for decades without any new thrust.

Remember when Microsoft was able to fight off the Web with piss-poor Internet Explorer? Until it didn't.

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