Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
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Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#2Oh shit.
I run Windows. I have respect for Microsoft. A lot of people do not, however, and the sense that Microsoft is ritually unclean will drive many of them away from github. It's the best thing that's happened to BitBucket and Altassian ever. If I have a choice between MS tools and Altassian tools I will usually take MS. (Visual Source Safe really did suck, but Visual Studio is not that bad...)
Also, Microsoft acquisitions do not seem to go well. Look at Skype, LinkedIn, etc.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#3GitLab here we come...
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#4Guess they could always relaunch VSS as "GitHub for Business" at the same time then! :)
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#5Something makes me feel like Microsoft acquiring Github will do away with Github's current, open nature.
If the extreme advertising in Windows 10 is any sign...
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#6Really hope these talks fall through and nothing comes of it. Too many bad experiences with Microsoft buying something out, mismanaging it, and it goes down the drain. As much as I love GitHub, I won't be using a Microsoft-owned GitHub for any of my company's work.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#7Something makes me feel like Microsoft acquiring Github will do away with Github's current, open nature. If the extreme advertising in Windows 10 is any sign...
At first they will just inject random commits that don't change any files but inform you about the latest price offerings on One Drive and Azure hosting. Later on if you're still on the "free" plan some of the commits will modify your hosted software to show their ads at runtime. Have fun!
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#8That would be kind of awesome, but I don't know how the github culture would meld with a big corporation. It would be an interesting case study for other similar start ups.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#9Oh shit. I run Windows. I have respect for Microsoft. A lot of people do not, however, and the sense that Microsoft is ritually unclean will drive many of them away from github. It's the best thing that's happened to BitBucket and Altassian ever. If I have a choice between MS tools and Altassian tools I will usually take MS. (Visual Source Safe really did suck, but Visual Studio is not that bad...) Also, Microsoft ac…
Perhaps they perceive that AWS and GCP seek to own more of the work infrastructure and they're trying to get out ahead of this.
* email/domain integration
* code hosting
* issue tracking/kanban-based project planning
* CI/CD processes
Developer tooling is evolving and there's a land-grab happening, from small workshops all the way up to global-scale enterprises.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#10If anyone has used VSTS or TFS knows this is a bad bad idea. They tend to make unnecessarily complicated user interfaces with poor usability.