Well said pede. At the end of the day, they are an advertising platform. Sure, they've developed some great tech in the process of making that. Google Earth, protobufs, Snappy compression algorithm, Tensor, etc... and have been nice enough to open source it.

But at the end of the day, they sell ads. That's where their money comes from.

All of these side projects don't make shit as far as money is concerned, so they understandably get diminishing attention and resources over time.

What I like about MS is support. Many of the products they sell have been around for decades and are still supported. To me, that's a huge deal. And it takes a massive corporation to deliver that support. Armies of engineers always there to make sure things work.

Again, they're still cucked. But they appear to be the least cucked to me, so I'll stick with them.