I already don’t use GitHub because of their awful politics. Maybe Microsoft will get rid of their bad actors.
Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
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Yeah, let's evaluate corporations for decisions made decades ago by people no longer at the company. At least spend 15 minutes reading about the progress MS has made in recent years before throwing around shade.
The progress they've made? Baking in more spyware into Windows and other products than ever before? Taking more control away from computer users than ever before? What planet are you people on?
> Baking in more spyware into Windows
Lost your argument as soon as you said "spyware". It's like calling everyone you disagree with a "terrorist".
> Taking more control away from computer users than ever before?
Like what?
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Telemetry is bad, forced updates is not.
I saw one happening on a PC in a conference room two weeks ago at the very moment a talk should begin. Nobody could do anything with the pc until the update was over. Great user experience.
Enterprise versions are updated based on the admin policy.
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I'd argue LinkedIn is much worse than it was pre-acquisition, but it was already on that trajectory. The "news feed" and discussions around current events, etc. They've locked down more and more of it without a $30/mo subscription. Privacy controls are a nightmare to decipher. I think it's significantly worse albeit probably short of totally "screwed up". Just marginally worse in a lot of small ways that add up to a…
just so you know, i know quite a few people at both linkedin and microsoft and for the most part they are still very seperate entities. linkedin is still using google docs and slack for instance. most of the influence microsoft has had on linkedin in smaller isolated integrations. so anything youve seen go downhill in linkedn consumer app is very much due to independent choices/acts by linkedin itself.
As someone with lots of friends at LinkedIn (I used to work there), I can agree somewhat. But I also know that things can be screwed up in non-obvious ways to rank and file employees (Tumblr/Yahoo and Flickr/Yahoo as examples, which I sadly was there for both).
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That's Steve Ballmer. He had the reverse-Midas touch, but he's gone now.
Microsoft was actually highly successful under Ballmer. Just not in terms of image or in the consumer-facing world.
It's a big company and hard to blame an individual for mistakes. But they totally missed out on being the mobile OS of the future under him. And they ended up getting a late, slow start to cloud computing (minus SAAS).
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
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That's Steve Ballmer. He had the reverse-Midas touch, but he's gone now.
Microsoft was actually highly successful under Ballmer. Just not in terms of image or in the consumer-facing world.
They might have made money under Ballmer, but he was also responsible for Windows 8, Windows Phone and restricting open source within the company.
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They undoubtedly did a bad job, but I think that Skype has a lot going against it from external factors anyway. Everyone I know is using FaceTime or Facebook Messenger. The only time I hear Skype anymore is people using it for podcasts. Obvious anecdata but it seems reasonable that services with better device integration (FaceTime) or social graph access (Facebook) would do better in the long run.
Or google hangouts. It's skype but in the web and with an interface that actually works.
Minus a few gigs of ram
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#328If github had to be sold, which tech company would be a better buyer than microsoft and able to afford a $2 billion acquisition?
Apple. I know it's not Apple's style but imagine if Apple started expanding outside of it's bubble like Microsoft has. If they really went all in it would be amazing.
I would prefer if Apple would continue to focus on making my phone better. They really slipped up with their QA on recent iOS releases.
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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#330So, Which Microsoft login will I need to use for Microsoft GitHub? My Microsoft Personal Account? Microsoft Work Account? Azure AD Account? Microsoft GitHub account? p.s. All of the accounts have the same username, you just try different password and 2FA combinations til it works.
Does that not depend on you?
Personal account - well that's your personal account ending in maybe @outlook.com
Microsoft Work Account - Defined by your workplace. Ending in @workplace.com
Azure AD Account - Same as your work account, unless your workplace uses a different tenant account for Azure.
Github Account - Well they still need to support the older accounts.