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Microsoft is becoming the new Golang of HN. As soon as a story appears mentioning it, it's on the frontpage.

These stories aren't in the front page because it's Microsoft, but because they are interesting. Microsoft is just doing consistently interesting things lately.

It’s almost like during Apple events

IMO, Microsoft is becoming the new Google; Google is becoming the old Microsoft, how funny is it..

Why exactly? Mind elaborating some on that statement? Because I disagree.

1.flooding market

2. stagnant platform

3. not proper direction

4. rushed release

5. longer and less transparent updates

etc.

That still sounds like Microsoft to me.

Really? With all the new things coming out of Redmond and with them open sourcing the full server side .NET stack[1], the description above still sounds like MS to you?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595905

"All the new things" You mean, flooding the market without a proper direction? :)

As for open sourcing, I don't see how that invalidates any of the points. None of them had "keeping platforms proprietary".

Exactly what could Microsoft do that would indicate to you that they have proper direction?

Alternatively, please point to a company that you think has proper direction and tell us why.

imo, it invalidates the following:

2 - the platform is not stagnant, be it Windows or .NET - new things are coming out;

3 - there is a proper direction, less towards Windows/Office as desktop apps and more towards services;

5 - the updates do happen more often, and at least for .NET they're done in a transparent way (being open source and all)

I guess the OP is talking more about debatable abuses of monopoly.

If I had a dime for every time I read this...you get the point.

Because Microsoft is finally getting their act together doesn't mean they become Google. They simply start to look like a better company. I really dont see how the two companies interchanged roles.

Google used to seem cool because they gave the people what they wanted and didn't exhibit many signs of being a parasite... but as they grew, they did.

Now Microsoft is giving people what they want because they are the underdog. So in that respect, in a lot of people's minds I think, their roles have interchanged.

That is because MS is currently putting out a lot of things that we simply didn't believe was possible 5 years ago. Suddenly MS is not only relevant again but interesting - heck the technology I am most psyced about (their augmented reality system) is a Microsoft product.

Shills & astroturfing is a very common -and old i might say- Microsoft tactic.

Hint: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2365060/microsoft-caught-astr...

#Reputation_management

We live in the age of shills and sheeple now. A few smart people controlling the narrative over large groups. Don't think the people trying to manipulate you aren't evolving and honing their strategies. Psy-ops and thought manipulation are widely documented practices. In the age we live in we must be vigilant and accept that we are probably being subtly manipulated by corporate interests, unfortunately. Is the poster claiming golang to be a fetish language of HN to distract from the fact that swift is the real fetish language? Am I a shill? No way. No way to know.

The good news is that the corporations who do it have to keep a lot of it secret so it's hard for all of them to align their interests and they end up competing with each other.

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