Microsoft is suffering brain-drain.
It's no longer cool to work for Microsoft. So, Microsoft has to pay more for worse talent.
Microsoft is trying to ride the wave of anti-consumer moves and SJW retoric at Google & Facebook in order to poach good programmers. By keeping themselves detached from political/social issues and being more OS friendly than the other tech giants.
Microsoft doesn't make money from patents anyway, they make money from being entrenched as the "go to" option for things like text editing and OSes in the mind of almost all consumers.
Microsoft is suffering brain-drain.
It's no longer cool to work for Microsoft. So, Microsoft has to pay more for worse talent.
Microsoft is trying to ride the wave of anti-consumer moves and SJW retoric at Google & Facebook in order to poach good programmers. By keeping themselves detached from political/social issues and being more OS friendly than the other tech giants.
Microsoft doesn't make money from patents anyway, they make money from being entrenched as the "go to" option for things like text editing and OSes in the mind of almost all consumers.