&gt; <i>I find the &quot;New Microsoft&quot; bittersweet.</i><p>Yes, a much more accurate description than the GP&#x27;s would be that the &quot;new Microsoft&quot; isn&#x27;t letting single executive edicts set corporate policy for many things, such as how all teams should interact with the open source communities, instead letting teams themselves make that decision and then supporting them in doing so. The natural result is that many developers within Microsoft come from or have extensive experience with open source and so will embrace it when given the opportunity.<p>It feels like less a change in philosophy of &quot;open source is our future&quot; and more of one that good decisions can come from the bottom up (and a little bit of &quot;yeah, the whole &#x27;linux is a cancer&#x27; thing was really stupid&quot;).