Microsoft is the inverse hand of Midas, turns everything into shit.
replyMierdas, as they say.
replyWith $101 billion in profit last year I wish I could turn things into $hit as well as they do.
replyYou could, with a large enough captive audience.
replyEverything Microsoft makes sucks. If they decided to make vacuum cleaners though, they wouldn’t suck, they would blow.
replyJust five years ago this opinion was heresy on HN. Those of us who still remembered their behavior in the 80s/90s were belittled.
reply"They have changed, gramps. This really smart Satya Nadella is CEO. They are the good guys now. Don't be so bitter over old stuff like systematic use of illegal tactics to attempt to kill all of its competitors including Linux."
Also: Note that the headline undersells the news dramatically. The article begins with:
"GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension."
Pretty sure that was astroturfing.
replyI always wondered what the division of pro-MS astroturfing was betweeen:
replya) Waggener Edstrom (now: WE Communications) or similar
b) Microsoft employees
c) Third-party Microsoft-only developers/IT people (with an obvious vested financial interest)
these days it's just Microslop
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