So many billions of dollars will be lost because of this, like scrum before it! Commits, without context, don't say much. Eager companies will try to follow this and just create a cobra effect.
I found it easier to get a new project if you focused on support tickets as a new hire. It is quite something to be able to be productive and see some dark corners of the stack earlier on.
I'm not ruling EEE out, but this move feels more like "staunch the bleeding" to capture more developers and retain the ones they have. I'd love to read a leaked Powerpoint or memo that explains the long-term strategy here.
I think this is a great move by Microsoft to be able to EXEC a competitor's binary files natively. But, I think it risks being an admission that Win32/64 syscalls and Windows file system semantics are a crufty boat anchor holding developers back. To admit that risks inviting more developers to bail on Windows.
As an American, I can guarantee you, demand means nothing to monopoly ISPs. If you have competition you might have better luck -- but should have had better luck already.
I hope things will be different in our case. We always get everything last. Funny enough, South Africa has the best internet infrastructure compared to the other Southern African Countries. I have been to Zimbabwe and Botswana. The speeds are decent but it costs an arm and a leg to get a gig of data there. :/
