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This is likely not going to get through to you because the hivemind blocked my account, but: It's financially inexpensive to change the minds of people in the techno-utopia. Couple…

Declutter? That's only a factor if clutter bothers you. It doesn't bother me. In fact, I find the need for order extremely boring. As an aside, I feel like neat freaks are space pe…

Back when I first started, that's what it was like. Had to make special code just for different versions of IE, let alone Netscape, Opera, webkit, khtml, etc.

Yes down votes for positive MS, and bans for negative MS.

I think there's quite a lot of paid promoters/promotional comments on this website, to be honest. I'd be interested in seeing a stylometric analysis of the comments. I bet we'd see…

Don't feed the trolls.

Exactly. This is a common criticism lobbed at Microsoft. And it's just as true for Google as it is for Microsoft.

Because they're trying to stifle competition, I'd bet. If enough people complain, they'll release the functionality and pretend like they intended to do it all along. It will be he…

I don't think his predisposition changes the reality of it.

I still feel excited about updates like that all the time with Linux.

I suppose you're free to believe what you want, but the microsoft renaissance is literally the companies marketing/PR. This is what they pay people to say on websites like Hackerne…

Why is the guy in your link so immediately defensive? Really unpleasant tone.

The new CEO's aren't elected. They're all hired by the same people. The same people who did it before.

I mean, anyone who thought he would be different seems to have overlooked who put him in that position.

I sure hope it's not that bad!

I'm going to use this to block any advertisements/PR from Apple, Google and Microsoft. Thanks OP.