Microsoft no longer the evil empire
 

I'm making the call; today Microsoft announced that a version of the Visual Studio editor will run on all three of OS X, Linux And Windows; and that they were releasing technology to permit Android and IOS apps to run on Windows 10, without too much work.

Code once, run anywhere!

Today they have officially shrugged off the legacy of Steve Ballmer and are embracing the new world where everything is open.

It's a good thing!

That's cool; I wonder if they'll get pushback from Apple on the IOS compatibility.

Only if Apple is an evil empire.

Apple is now in evil empire territory.

Apple getting DOJ attention after trying to force record labels to deny Spotify a contract for ad-supported streaming, ahead of the launch of its own Beats streaming service

Things kind of turned since the 90s between apple and microsoft. Between the fee's to apply an app to the store, the licensing process for developers, the inability to run objective c on any other platform without a virtual desktop, not accepting java... it's just business imperialism 101.

...and in the mean time google is jumping over the "do no evil" slogan and heading to a whole new territory of "wtf empire", where you aren't sure if they are becoming a reluctant corporate branch of the US intelligence or trying to build their own robot army.