
Re: Microsoft's long list of dead ends
That's certainly happened a lot in the past. But I think you're a bit behind the curve, a lot of Microsoft's major development initiatives are now open source (on GitHub) including WPF, .Net Core, C#, ASP.Net MVC, Winforms (yes even that old doggie ;)). And MS is a big contributor to the Linux Kernel project as well - MS is now quite a different beast from the old Steve Ballmer days! ;)