[colanderman]

> I am constantly amazed that I can open a linux prompt on windows

Similarly, I'm amazed that I can build truly cross-platform .NET apps using Microsoft's own open-source tools from the Linux command line. (Apparently .NET Core, which both adopted the MIT license, and ushered in true cross-platform support, was announced later in the year that Nadella took over. [1] Not sure whether he had anything to do with it.)

What an about-face from 2000-era Microsoft's embrace-extend-extinguish approach. Remember Visual J++? If you'd told me then I'd be willingly programming on a Microsoft toolchain 20 years later I would not have believed you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET#History

[__d]

You might think it's an about-face.

I suggest that it's actually just a better executed embrace.