Well I was late to respond to this party, as is obvious, but yes, it still applies. As a matter of fact, even more so.

We all understand ms is a proprietary software producing company, and many in the tech community have been veering away from them in increasing numbers. They have sought to regain this leaking market share by doing some open source initiatives, with the intended purpose of getting people locked in in other areas! This is exactly what we mean in the modern context when we say eee. Embrace (the pro open source community), extend (the oss into other platforms, pulling devs back into the proprietary platform), and extinguish (pull back the open source to reveal the proprietary base it's founded on).

Half the problem is people see open source and think it's automatically good. What we need is FOSS (free open source software) and people need to learn the difference and why the F in front of FOSS is so important.