Comment by vmfunction
2 years ago
These sounds like classic MS behaviour. It is kind of thing that ought to addressed in anti-trust case.
2 years ago
These sounds like classic MS behaviour. It is kind of thing that ought to addressed in anti-trust case.
I've posted this here on HN numerous times over the years, and it's been a while since I last posted it:
Google is the new "Microsoft", they embrace, they extend, then extinguish. Look at their email offering, messaging offerings, they built on top of XMPP, then they pulled the plug eventually. Android is Linux based, but insanely proprietary, the app store is not open by any means, you're fully at their whims to get your apps on there. Chrome is basically the IE of old, implementing proprietary things or APIs that are not yet standard for Google products, and pushing out competing browsers.
don't forget the old Microsoft is still here. We have two Microsofts now!
The old, old Microsoft is still here, too. IBM is still there, a dinosaur in the mist.