There was a new wind after Satya took over, but apparently it is slowly gone now.

That was a mask the corporation put on in a bid to lure in the younger crowd who doesn't remember all the underhanded stuff Microsoft did in the past. But they haven't really changed at all.

The thing that surprises me the most about Satya is how he managed to survive in MS so long if he really is different from the previous administration.

To me it never made a difference. There was a concerted effort to put lipstick on the pig but it was still a pig.

to put lipstick on the wrong end of a pig :)

this is a mystery to me: ms has all the money in the world to make it right.. yet they can't. windows ecosystem is like one of those eastern european barnyards, where animals live and die between old halves tractors and rusty Lada(s).

More like put lipstick on the scorpion.

It is in their nature. It takes a lot of work to excise bad practices from an organization and removing the guilty parties is only step one. Everything continues to work the way the bad actors wanted them to work for a long, long time.

Gates was bad. Balmer was worse. He was still in charge 11 years ago, in a company he helped build 40 years ago. Their personalities are the bones of that organization.