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Google Joins Microsoft's .NET Foundation (venturebeat.com)
Emil Protalinski, writing for VentureBeat:As part of its slew of announcements at its Connect(); 2016 developer event in New York City today, Microsoft unveiled that Google is joining the .NET Foundation. Specifically, Google is becoming a member of the Technical Steering Group, which Microsoft says "reinforces the vibrancy of the .NET developer community" and also underlines "Google's commitment to fostering an open platform that supports businesses and developers who have standardized on .NET." [...] So what does Google joining actually mean? In short, Google will help steer the future of .NET in a way that is "similar to an open standard," Xamarin cofounder and Microsoft's current vice president of mobile developer tools, Nat Friedman, told VentureBeat. Google's decision is being driven by its enterprise business (Google Cloud) and the desire to keep up with businesses adopting public and hybrid clouds. The company sees the move as part of its commitment to open-source technology, which benefits all enterprises, and cross-platform development that gives developers and IT professionals access to the best tools.
They weren't competing for the popular vote. They were competing for the presidency and he won it convincingly. Deal with it.
AWWW.... did I hit a Fuckface von Nervestick? Trump didn't win the largest block of popular votes, which, in a functioning democracy is usually what qualifies you as the winner. Lucky for Trump the fucked up and throughly rigged US electoral college system allows the runner up to win.