[mitm2mitm]

Am I crazy or is Microsoft announcing new open source or dev friendly stuff everytime there's a PR bomb here on HN?

18/08/2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305598 With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy (eff.org)

A day later they announce Power Shell is open source.

I remember a few months ago they blasted HN's frontpage with news after a few discussions about telemetry and EEE (first wave of Windows 10/UWP showing its true colors).

I don't care enough to do a reddit-esque investigation on HN stories. I just find it funny, that's all.

[frik]

You are definitely not crazy nor alone with watching these PR tactics. I dislike that so many MSFT employees/puppets/bots/fanboys frequent HN since Build conference 2015. I would prefer the HN of pre-Spring-2015 with news about venture capitalists, startups and software that matters to startups - and not corporate PR about software that doesn't make sense for startups. See how MySpace lost, look what software stack they used and how it burned through cash because of very expensive license fees, compare it to Facebook. Everyone who got burned by the Seattle guys once usually learn and avoid getting burned again.

[unfunco]

If that's what they're trying to do, then they're doing it badly.