The Evolution of Microsoft Embracing Python Like a Python Snake

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2019-02-06 08:04:01 UTC
Modified: 2019-02-06 08:04:01 UTC

Many new strides in recent months

Tie snake

Summary: Microsoft's suffocating embrace is, as usual, targeting the market leader, this time Python (a programming star) and the past few months brought disturbing new developments associated with entryism

THE FOLLOWING tweets, starting 2010 and running until this week, tell the story better than a diagram/picture.

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/20269279289

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/108532989562073088

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/755937410240901120

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/872628174756208640

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/879059664310325248

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1037567739307745280

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1041912212942716928

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1068384855287914496

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1073796916490702848

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1075676025948962816

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1088147400919797761

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1088535532207067136

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1090519779708948481

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1091861121533919232

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1092528691270373376

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1092530465754484741

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1092532191274459142

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1092533491529641987

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1092534849003499520

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1092538153712394240

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1092540689173360640

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1092542907117121537

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1092543741724946432

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1092771873149120513

Money talks. Microsoft is buying its position inside Python like it did Apache a decade ago [1, 2]. ⬆

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