>In terms of how much control they had on the industry they absolutely did.
IBM never had a 90%+ stranglehold on the market. MS did.


>They never had the sort of installed base that MS has with Windows because there were never any where near
>as many mainframes as there are PCs, but guess what, there are already more mobile devices out there running
>Android than there are PCs running Windows.

There are also more ios devices being sold then windows PCs out there = more competition in mobile space than in the PC space.
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>Excuse me????? IBM never wielded or abused the kind of power that MS had????

Nope. IBM never had and install base like MS. Never had license revenues like MS. Were not at the top as long as MS.

Don't get me wrong, IBM were nasty motherfuckers in their day, but their stick was considerably smaller than Microsoft's.

True. So true. We narrowly dodged the WCF bullet by delaying so long in switching to it that it was dead by the time we were ready. Straight to WebAPI.

For years MS was run like the UFC with battling stables of fighters constantly trying to fuck eachother up, ultimately at the expense of the Devs/Users.

Remains to be seen if the new guy "gets it" and smashes the toxic and entrenched Fiefdom system that exists in Redmond.

Correct. You'll notice I'm not shouting for any particular company to gain a monopoly or near-monopoly, As none of the companies you mentioned have ever wielded, or indeed abused the kind of power MS had, they are not considered as dangerous or debate-worthy in this regard.

The health of an eco-system can be measured by its diversity and MS has repeatedly demonstrated itself to be a diversity-killer.

I still dont' trust MS. Once they start getting back large market share the old anti competitive stifling old fart of a company will emerge from behind the mask again.

They need to just continue to wither away. The software industry has never been as vibrant or innovative as the last few years when MS was down.

> So, is this just another update to shuffle a couple of buttons

Is there any other kind of sub-point release update?

The Scene: A packed Moe's Tavern, with the tills ringing and overflowing due to sales of the 'Flaming Moe' beverage. Cue a disgruntled Homer Simpson...
Homer: Hey Moe, you just..... you just lost yourself a customer.
Moe: Yeah you can use it!

Fuck San Francisco

I guess we now know for sure who holds the real power in the US now that the supreme court judges are too cowardly to do their god damned jobs. Are they too busy hearing other cases? What case could be more pressing that allegations of illegal mass surveillance? 300 million victims, and some cowards in robes.

and HOOOORAY open source and slashdot type stuff!!!

He's still got Obama's election slogans ringing in his ears "Yes we can!" and "Change!!" lol. Obama is a political animal, just like all the others in DC. Do not expect anything different from him. As another commenter pointed out, he is part of the system that created and supports the military surveillance complex.

Seriously though, way to cripple the roll-out of a product with potential.

If it is the reference then making claims about its accuracy is surly redundant?

I wonder what backdoor the NSA has built into this.

This project, counter-intuitively, damages open source as it fragments the OSS ecosystem as there will just be more places to search to find a piece of code or a project. It will also lead to more projects spaces being abandoned as people hop from one provider to the next (or even their own). Without the existence of a federated register or search it will bring about a kind of OSS Heat Death