Nonsensical corporate posturing.

"Microsoft will contribute expertise, resources, and AI technologies to help responsibly identify and fix vulnerabilities"

As a reminder, Microsoft runs NPM and GitHub. Microsoft has access to the best AI models and massive data centers. Despite that, their own products are rapidly getting worse at security and their services are central hubs through which various exploits are propagated. They are not making things better, they are actively and rapidly making things worse.

For a great example of how Microsoft deals with security issues within their own Open-Source projects, I recommend reading this GitHub thread:

https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/issues/38257

EF core currently distributes a version of SQLite that has a severe vulnerability. The issue was discovered over a year ago. It was fixed by SQLite within one week. EF core didn't mark their driver as vulnerable until a user recently reported it, got bounced around and argued with developers. The current stable version of .NET core will only get a fix in roughly two months.

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playorizaya 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Before Microsoft, GitHub invented all of Electron just so they could create an IDE in JavaScript (lol)

But it was fun - and Electron became something totally different and useful. This is what tech innovation is all about.

Microsoft after acquiring them, instead of continuing these great projects with VSCode, instead paid for influencers to trash Electron (which worked for the most part, in 2026 most people think Electron sucks and can't say why - when WKWebView is way worse! Nobody cares).

So, MS builds VSCode - doesn't even fork Atom to do so. Looks identical to it. They built it from scratch. Bigger. Slower. Now with Copilot! I just went back to Atom (rather Pulsar, the last good fork).

I share this because it's exactly what Microsoft always does. They acquire based on opportunity and competitive space then rarely even use what they paid for. They get rid of all the good employees and the good code. They put a bunch of Indians in there who just hire other Indians and totally ruin the product.

But what gets me is EVERYONE uses their stuff still hahahah Guys. STOP USING MICROSOFT STUFF. Get off LinkedIn. Let's all go in on another VCS. Until open source developers put their money with their mouth is, Microsoft will continue to suck in more ways than one.

	▲	josteink 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> So, MS builds VSCode - doesn't even fork Atom to do so. Looks identical to it. They built it from scratch. Bigger. Slower. Someone needs to fix a memory leak here. Atom was famously slow. Even among people using it and championing it. VSCode totally wowed people not just because it was faster, but because it was essentially the first «real» Electron-app which proved Electron-apps could have near native performance. You got this part 100% backwards.