[ninjakeyboard]

What's going on over at microsoft? They've had a flurry of OSS announcements, a linux-for-switches fork, are posting relevant tech articles etc. This isn't the same microsoft I know. Is there some sort of change in the direction of leadership? I haven't seen any articles about changes in strategy in these directions but am seeing a lot of activity.

[Avalaxy]

This article is actually pretty old, I read it months ago. It's not new for Microsoft either, they have/had the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team which develops sample applications, books, websites and libraries to demonstrate various design patterns. This is just one of them.

[pm90]

They are heavily focused on the cloud. They recognized (correctly) that their time of living off revenues of Windows and Office were limited and thus they need to do other things as well. But yes, I am rather surprised at how well they are handling the change :).

[72deluxe]

I have the "cloud to my butt" plugin installed. It changes all occurrences of "the cloud" to "my butt".

So you opening sentence made me laugh, thanks!

The announcement of SQL Server for Linux is very interesting; the other year when they released an ODBC driver for Linux I thought it was a significant change but it would be interesting to know how many people actually used it.

Oddly the focus on The Cloud seems to be also matched by the focus on telemetry gathering etc. I will wait to see how it pans out.

[BinaryIdiot]

To be fair Microsoft has always posted relevant tech articles. Even 10 years ago when they were hard core only in their own development bubble they had excellent articles about architecture and scaling, etc. The MSDN has more than just simple documentation and it's always been quite an amazing resource.

[outside1234]

Satya is what happened. Microsoft finally has a CEO that gets it.

[moron4hire]

Most of these changes would have had to have gotten started under Balmer. Nadella has only been at the helm for two years. If anything, Nadella has been doubling down on a plan Balmer put into motion.

[padiyar83]

Not quite true, Satya led cloud and enterprise org. before stepping into CEO. Many of the initiatives at Azure started with direct involvement from Satya. He also pushed for open Microsoft long before becoming a CEO, its just that now he is the CEO, he can make it happen.

[moron4hire]

But MS has been open sourcing more than just the cloud stuff for longer than just the last two years.

[jsudhams]

Yes, Microsoft Patterns & Practices were there from 2002/3 onwards i remember patterns on app move from Unix to windows instead of linux and MS has Services for Unix posix 1.x compliant at that time so all basic linux tools (ls/sh/awk/sed etc) and api worked on WIndows 2003 with NFS and NIS compatibility

[UK-AL]

Microsoft Patterns & Practices have been doing these sorts of pages for years.