"Never underestimate the next man's greed."
-Tony Montoya
While I don't hold Bill Gates personally responsible for Microsoft's crackwhore-like affinity for the money chase I do recognize Microsoft's SPECTACULAR audacity and uncanny inability to stay out of court for violating someone else's right to do competitive business. That said, I don't believe MS would develop open ANYTHING unless it saw an opportunity to pervert it to their sole benefit later on.
Microsoft has already stated their intent to refine the subscription based model to the point of making the OS a subscription-based "service". (Simply put: eventually you'll pay MS a regular bill for the privilege of using your own hardware.) Anything they do, then, in my own common sense, is in that direction.
I wouldn't buy into an MS "open" standard if they standardized the direction in which underwear peeter holes opened.
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