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manigandham
on Dec 4, 2018
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Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replac...
Poisonous name? Are you referring to Visual Studio? That's widely considered as one of the best IDEs around.
JBiserkov
on Dec 4, 2018
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Yes. At the same time it's hated by many anti-MS folks, especially in the Linux/OS X crowd.
TimTheTinker
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I don’t know any
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-MS folks anymore. Those who were that generally stopped hating MS when MS stopped being a threat to the existence of their preferred platform, or to open source in general.
manigandham
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If people hate it just because they're "anti-MS" instead of based on product qualities then it's not the name that's poisonous.
SmellyGeekBoy
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If people choose to hate it for fanboy reasons that's their loss.
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