Comment by Ygg2

> For the last 25 years, Microsoft was known for:

That's true, but there is a catch in your wording. For the last 15 year, Microsoft has:

- Adopted open source/free software and gave contributions to various project (e.g. Linux in 2012 https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTEwNzE)

- Abandoned the worst web browser in existence. That they created :)

- Abandoned ActiveX (29 years ago), Silverlight (4 years ago)

+ Opened .NET to more platform than just Windows. It can now run very well on Linux, Mac, etc.

+ Made many of its locked down stuff open source - .NET, Z3, hell there was that few weeks ago open sourcing of the WinUI framework, etc.

+ Pivoted towards the cloud where OSS software synergizes with their cloud offerings.

Do they do corrupt deals with governments? Well yes, but so does every other big corp. And making cringe hardware isn't a crime in itself.

Do they still do a lot of shady shit? You bet, but they only started getting worse a few years ago. You are thinking it doesn't come in waves and it was all evil, all the time.