Comment Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that (Score 1) 265
- The halloween emails represent typical corporate strategy;
- MS is still a corporation;
So the burden of proof is on those who say MS has changed.
Signs of changing would include:
- Support for old systems, instead of the endless unneeded costly and toxic upgrade cycle. You cannot have volunteers like debian to better support old stuff than a billion tier corporation.
- API stability and openness, instead of pushing and retiring flavours of the month. Ask people who invested in silverlight.
- Acknowledging the billion hours, and dollars, spent just because MS thought your computer was marketshare. I think many wars have costed less to society than MS, the other corporations, and the entire system of IT based on planned obsolescence, incompatibilities, NIH syndrome.
tldr: go on trusting MS it worked so well for those before you.