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by code_duck 2897 days ago
The company has an almost 40 year history. When you’ve built up and miss trust over decades, peoples attitudes are not going to change overnight.

Personally, while I was merely describing what I perceived other people’s viewpoints to be, I don’t know why it’s so hard for Microsoft to make a normal terminal app. People have the choice of a dozen adequate terminal apps on Linux. I guess this article explains any difficulty.

As far as MS modernizing, one could look at it as, what would you think if 25 or 30 years ago, IBM said that they were turning around and we’re now a modern, agile company instead of a slow-moving relic of the previous era, and they built an awesome new console app for OS/2?