The reason here is Microsoft is trying to make copilot a platform.
This is the essential step to moving all the power from OpenAI to Microsoft. It would grant Microsoft leverage over all providers since the customers would depend on Microsoft and not OpenAI or Google or Anthropic. Classic platform business evolution at play here.
I'm sure there are multiple reasons, including lowering the odds of antitrust action by regulators. The EU was already sniffing around Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI.
The Copilot team probably thinks of Cursor's efforts as cute. They can be a neat little product in their tiny corner of the market.
It's far more valuable to be a platform. Maybe Cursor can become a platform, but the race is on and they're up against giants that are moving rather surprisingly nimbly.
Github does way more, you can build on top of it, and they already have a metric ton of business relationships and enterprise customers.
A developer will spend far more time in the IDE than the version control system so I wouldn't discount it that easily. That being said, there are no network effects for an IDE and Cursor is basically just a VSCode plugin. Maybe Cursor gets a nice acquihire deal
Amazing that even when they are giving users maximal choice, even including their arch-nemesis Google, they are evil? Would Microsoft be better if you could only use Microsoft models?
I'd love to see a list of the open standards they've embraced and killed. Your argument is on a weak foundation if it is based on Internet Explorer in the pre IE8 days (15+ years ago), or anything older than that.
Frankly, Microsoft hasn't had enough influence to kill any open standard since the height of their dominance in the early 2000s. They aren't that important. I mean, market forces made them adopt Chromium even.
Interesting. Humans love memetic patterns so much we’re like chickens with lines drawn in front. We can’t help but say the thing. Like the Nam Shub of Enki it’s entered our minds and now reproduces in all sorts of contexts.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish we say now without thought. The virus breaks containment. Like fungus on an ant it makes us summit and then spew it forth on others - self—modifying to maximize life span.
