Yes, the stock keeps rising
But lots of companies have rising stocks.
I feel like Microsoft, in the past year or so, has been really positioning themselves as the foremost technology company in the world. Their developer relationships have to be at an all-time high. With GitHub and VSCode to go along their cloud business, their hardware, their operating system, their browser, etc.
They're a diversified professional networking company with their acquisition of LinkedIn, and GitHub only added to this position.
Microsoft seems well-liked, executing well, and well-positioned in many important tech sectors. I'm fairly blown away at the progress.
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Agreed , Microsoft is playing 'safe' and as a .net developer it bugs me.
.net ecosystem which was first targeted for huge businesses,has higly invested in Microsoft only ecosystem. Today .net ecosystem is distributed between supporting legacy products and creating new microservices, this is where I see issue, going forward only one standard i.e. .Net 5 is expected, that will create so much blunder because .net framework apps will become somewhat legacy. Some might say you will have to adapt and move to newer technologies and patterns, but we should remember there are still some businesses running on COBOL making billions, it is a huge investment in migrating to newer standards if changes are breaking and time consuming.
Stock wise yes but platform wise no. Their own development environment is so fractured that it appears to be a omen "Move to the cloud, desktop is dead". I'd rather develop desktop using Electron than to jump on MSFT train again. MSFT throws their own developers under the bus, often.
Oh yes, if Electron doesn't work for me Angular and React do. In a sense I'm done with MSFT platforms, thanks to MSFT.
Bless 🙏🏼
There's a lot of good people in here now and I feel like I'm in genuinely good company.
Buying a bunch of popular platforms have that kind of effect.
Most of their in-house made stuff still sucks balls last i checked.
vscode caught me be surprise tho, so i am more tentative to cut them some slack these days.
I think especially after what facebook and Google pulled of lately, they became the good guys. Vscode, integrating linux, new terminal...
5 years ago it was 'M$ the big bad corporate ugly'. As you observed the have done a 180* and now reaping the rewards. Honestly 8 do t know who the executive board is but whoever they have, should stay as long as possible.
Like it or not, even Linux owes credit to the recent MS about face.
I’ve recently read an article that Microsoft’s vision is shifting towards developers, they’re trying to get developers back on their side.
I’m quite impressed with a lot of things they’re doing. From GitHub aquisition to the enormous success of VSCode. And now looking forward to the release of the new Windows terminal and the embeded linux kernel on Windows 10.
I think we could be looking at a new era for devs where linux is no longer the obvious choice
Honestly, I can't say anything else but that I have been impressed with Microsoft. Their new CEO understands the importance of open-source.
I still see a lot of hate towards Microsoft, Windows OS in particular. It's mostly the Linux neckbeards on 4chan that are still hating on Microsoft.
Sure, everyone makes mistakes. But Microsoft's new CEO did a 180 degree turn.
The tech industry seems to have a short-term memory. Microsoft and their practices seem to have taken a back-burner to recent publicity. People want to believe this company can change, but I try to read between the lines.
I've been running Linux on the desktop for 20 years and reboot into Windows to play games only. I've built software on Windows, Linux and Mac and the latter two are the only ones I've used in the past eight years for development.
Microsoft is a very convincing trap; if you think you can't live without Windows it behooves you to try running Linux or Mac for a year and then try to return to the hegemony that is MS Windows. Fifteen years ago the idea of MS supporting anything related to Open Source was laughable; Ballmer equated it to communism.
As the web evolved further and further away from MS and into UNIX/Linux, MS then changes its tune and wants in? If you can't lead, poison the waters?
You're all being had in my opinion.
Hats off to the CEO for finally getting it together!