[opportune]

It took Microsoft a top-level executive change (Satya) to fix itself. Facebook shows no signs of an executive change until Mark retires and devotes himself to full time philanthropy so the world doesn’t remember him as evil (who else does that remind you of...)

[giancarlostoro]

I feel like this does a disservice to the prior open source efforts that Microsoft slowly went through during the Ballmer era. Sure they were not as impressive but they were the start of it all imho.

[bartread]

Agree. That ball had started rolling before Ballmer's departure. You could see it in efforts like PyTools and NTVS, just for openers.

[finaliteration]

Does that mean they’ll have to go through a “Steve Ballmer” phase first?

[opportune]

Probably when Sandberg takes over

[bilbo0s]

The truth is MS never fixed itself, it just got too fat and lazy for any of us to care anymore.