This gives a new meaning on "done in a flash." Hopefully it won't force Sliverlight to bring it back in a "popular comeback." for an outmoded technology.

Given that Google+ bombed, why is anyone listening to this artard? He isn't CEO anymore, and this assclown couldn't build his own "amplifier for idiots."

Now of course, if you get hacked, attacked, cracked, or fracked it's the user/admin fault for not turning off JScript in the POS Internet Explorer JS component. But it took GM forever to put a stabilizer bar on the Corvair, or Ford a long time a roll-over valve on the Pinto, or Intel to recall and replace for free the Pentium processor. Better wait than never. Yet there are some genius assclowns that still either require or force Windows users to use Internet Exploder.

The only adult in the room, left standing on the mountain of corpses after the massacre of other companies, products over the years. And forcing software that gets grade A number one in buggy, insecure, in short crap. If this politician feel for their "statement of principles" bull-flop, well that's one whom has fallen for their piffle. I think I'm going to need some new boots because the bullcrap is starting to pile up...

Wow! Microsoft is going for total bull-flop. They're not all in, leaving out the XBox platform, but hey they mention it so it's okay! Bull-flop. This is more a "declaration of principles" to smokescreen the public, and politicians. But self-serving principles for the veneer of fairness. They're whining because they are not the big bully anymore. Not on the playground, but in the bathroom where the boys are smokin' they are. Microsoft isn't where it is today because they played fair. If the dictator of Redmondia suddenly grants political amnesty to everyone outside Redmondia, but anyone in Redmondia is not included because of "complex issues" or xyz-complexity, but hey the dictator is admitting it, so its okay! Let's end the trade embargo. Actually this reminds me of when Intel back in the 1990's with the Pentium bug decided to be ethical, nice and replace the microprocessor--but only if you could prove you had a need for multiplication accuracy. I think the serfs at Microsoft putting out this self-serving declaration of principles, might want to either tell Satya to go "all in" instead of admitting their hypocrisy with a smile, or read "In Search of Stupidity." Satya should fire the marketing and PR geniuses that came up with this doggerel. https://www.amazon.com/Search-... Microsoft: We're not evil, we just hope you're stupid enough to not see that we are...

The leak of Windows XP source code is like a leak of radioactive waste, or raw sewage--the same smelly crap that now everybody can see clearly yet still stinks.

Microsoft's "embracing" is a euphemism...consider they're embracing an open-source package manager... https://medium.com/@keivan/the... Microsoft also "embraced" Python, Ruby (remember IronPython, IronRuby ???) and of course its own source code hosting site (Codeplex) but acquired Github. Great sound bite, reminds me of Mr. C. Montgomery Burns in "The Simpsons" trying to reform his ways...

More or less noise, replacing gobbledegook with gibberish...

George Orwell described "newspeak" for using the "right" word but from the state....now Google is following this enlightened path. (Please note my sarcastic tone.) A new Alphabet soup of speak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This new story seems to be a bit of hyperbole, and sensationalist in "the sky is falling!" But overlooked in the 1976 computer proof of the Four Color Theorem. And there are "castles on sand" in that Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem states some statements in a system of mathematics can be neither proved nor disproved. They are accepted as true. But if a computer creates a mathematical proof that is so convoluted and complex that a human being cannot understand it, then coming full circle to the original problem. The sky is falling...again. Computers don't understand, they process. Wrong information it is the old GIGO--garbage in, garbage out. So a computer proof of a theorem is...well an amplification of human fallibility. This reminds me of the wonderful short story "Division by Zero" by Ted Chiang where a mathematician with a proof proves something inconsistent, so much so she had to be in a psychiatric hospital because of the conclusion. Read it here https://fantasticmetropolis.co... JoshK