Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member

So much has changed in 10 years! The old me would never believe how the future me moved more "Micro$oft sucks" to "wow another great product!"

I am happy to use Office in wine, as it gives me a very stable experience, full unicode supports even with my Xorg keymaps.

I use Visual Studio in wine - not as good as Office, but still very good.

I have a Windows phone, a priced relic since Microsoft abandoned them. Rock stable, last for a week in airplane mode.

I have a Windows 10 LTSB in a separate partition. Initially I just wanted to test it out. Now I consider running it in KVM for Visual Studio, in case I want more than what wine can now offer.

Hell, I am considering replacing my Thinkpad by one of Microsoft surfaces. As soon as it runs Linux as well as a Thinkpad, can get 32G of RAM, a user replacable SSD, wifi and lte module, I buy one. Seriously, even if the keyboard is not as good. And given Microsoft new focus on developpers, I wouldn't entirely dismiss the idea of a Surface Developper, bulkier but sturdier and user upgradable.

People say "hell froze over". I don't care. I look forward for more change from Microsoft. Because their tools are innovative again.

Hell has frozen over, but that's just my opinion :)

Embrace(check), extend(check), and extinguish(?)

Maybe this will force Apple to improve the XCode platform.